Chapel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Chapel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- graven-minaret-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chapel Farmhouse, Chapel Road, Meppershall, SG17 5NQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 362
- Coordinates
- 52.01272, -0.33004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Farmhouse is a house located on the site of the former monastic Grange belonging to Chicksands Priory. It likely has an earlier core but is primarily a late 18th-century building, as indicated by an inscribed brick that reads "I.H. (or 1.S.?) 1786", with mid-19th-century alterations and extensions. The structure is made of red brick, featuring vitrified headers in the earlier part, and has slate roofs, with the rear block being hipped.
The principal block is designed with a two-room plan and consists of two storeys and attics. There is a two-storeyed block and single-storeyed outbuildings added to the rear. On the west elevation, the right-hand part is original while the left-hand part is a 19th-century addition. The earlier section has a brick band at the first-floor level. Both the ground and first floors feature two 19th-century tripartite sash windows with glazing bars, although the left-hand ground floor window is later and larger. The first floor includes a blind window in the centre, which is narrower than the other openings. The attic has two box dormers.
Below the blind window, there is a part-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight, situated within a 19th-century brick porch. The porch has a round-headed arch and decorative pierced bargeboards. The gable ends are adorned with red brick stacks, one being external and the other integral. A dentil cornice can be found at the eaves.
Local climate
Chapel Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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