Former Wesleyan Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Former Wesleyan Chapel
- WRENN ID
- rusted-nave-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Former Wesleyan Chapel, Church Street, Ilchester, BA22 8LN
- OS grid reference
- ST 522 226
- Coordinates
- 51.00123, -2.6824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Wesleyan Chapel on Church Street was built in 1850 and enlarged between 1861 and 1863. It is now used as an antiques showroom. The chapel is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with ham stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof featuring a stepped coped gable at the street front. The building is a single storey with a three-bay gabled facade. The central doorway is chamfered and pointed-arch, featuring part-glazed doors and a foliage-stop label above. On either side of the doorway are 16-pane display windows that have been added. Above the doorway is a triple lancet window with a matching label, a plaque indicating the building dates of 1850 and 1863, and a circular vent in the gable crown. Each side elevation has two Y-traceried two-light windows without labels. The rear of the building has been extended to include a two-bay unit with two single-lancet windows and a plain pointed-arched door in between. The interior now features an intermediate floor, but the building has not been significantly altered. The chapel is believed to have closed in the later 1970s.
Local climate
Former Wesleyan Chapel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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