New Bethel Chapel and attached Hall/School is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 November 1993. House. 2 related planning applications.
New Bethel Chapel and attached Hall/School
- WRENN ID
- keen-groin-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- New Bethel Chapel and attached Hall/School, Sketty
- OS grid reference
- SS 623 931
- Coordinates
- 51.62055, -3.99007
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building comprises a late 18th-century chapel, significantly altered in the mid-19th century, along with an attached hall or schoolroom. The front elevation is constructed of snecked brown stone freestone quoins and dressings, with a rendered (plastered) northeast side and a rear wall of rubble. The roof is slate.
The central bay of the chapel is advanced and gabled, featuring a pinnacle. A roundel is positioned above a pair of round-headed, two-light windows with Italianate tracery. A ground-floor panel reads "Bethel Erected 1770, New Bethel Erected 1842, Rebuilt 1870". The returns of the central bay have an upper-floor round-headed window, while a square-headed entrance doorway is located to the right. The outer bays feature upper round-headed windows and round-headed doorways fitted with Palladian stone doorframes, panelled double-leaf doors, and overlights. The right-hand elevation is rendered and contains two round-headed windows on each floor, set within continuous moulded architraves. The rear of the chapel is of rubble construction with two round-headed windows on each floor, featuring brick surrounds.
To the left of the chapel's front is the hall or schoolroom, with a gabled front featuring a group of three small windows and a round window below. A round-headed entrance doorway is flanked by round-headed windows on either side. A more recent extension has been added to the left of the hall.
Local climate
New Bethel Chapel and attached Hall/School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 4 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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