Chapel House and Adjoining Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. House, chapel. 5 related planning applications.
Chapel House and Adjoining Chapel
- WRENN ID
- secret-vault-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- House, chapel
- OS grid reference
- TL 834 446
- Coordinates
- 52.06942, 0.6755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel House and the adjoining chapel are a house and former chapel built in the early 18th century, with 19th-century additions. The building features plastered walls and has two range roofs covered with red pantiles. The house has a gabled roof, while the chapel has a hipped roof with a moulded eaves cornice. The house is two storeys high and has one window range of vertical sliding sashes on the left side. To the right, there is a four-panel door with a light above it. A red brick chimney stack is present on the house. The chapel has central double doors that are vertically boarded, with two light windows featuring Gothic heads on either side. The right side of the chapel has four 18th-century two-light square leaded windows with transoms and mullions, and the left side has one matching 18th-century window.
Local climate
Chapel House and Adjoining Chapel 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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