Bethel Presbyterian Chapel, including School-room & Wall to Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 1991. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Bethel Presbyterian Chapel, including School-room & Wall to Church Street
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1991
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bethel Presbyterian Chapel, including School-room & Wall to Church Street, Newcastle Emlyn, SA38 9AB
- OS grid reference
- SN 308 407
- Coordinates
- 52.03889, -4.46822
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bethel Presbyterian Chapel, including the schoolroom and wall to Church Street, is a building constructed in 1820, with possible remodelling in 1869. It features painted stucco over rubble stone and has a hipped slate roof. The elaborate east front has a projected centerpiece, stepped parapets, and moulded surrounds around the openings. The plain sides have four windows, a plinth, a sill-band, arched long windows, and a cornice.
The front elevation includes long arched windows on either side of the centerpiece, which contains paired arched doors and a stepped triplet of small arched windows above. The design features a plinth, angle quoins at the centerpiece and outer angles, a moulded cornice, and parapets, with the center raised and adorned with scrolled abutments leading to a coped shallow-gabled section topped with a block finial and urn. A plaque on the gable reads: 'Bethel Adeiladwyd 1820 Ailadeiladwyd 1869'. All windows and doors have matching moulded frames with pilasters, moulded arched heads, and keystones. The outer bays have sill bands, and the center triplet features a central light with a stilted arch and timber tracery, along with panelled double doors.
The forecourt wall facing Church Street is constructed with large square grey stone piers topped with limestone ashlar caps and features spearhead iron double gates. The pier capstones have a moulded cornice beneath a square block with fluted sides and a pyramid cap.
To the southeast of the chapel is a schoolroom built around 1900, designed in a matching style with painted stucco and a slate eaves roof. This single-storey structure has paired arched windows in raised cement surrounds, with one pair on each side of a center gabled and bargeboarded porch that includes a moulded arched doorway and a blank roundel above.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bethel Presbyterian Chapel, including School-room & Wall to Church Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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