The Old Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Chapel, house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Chapel
- WRENN ID
- vacant-pillar-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Chapel, house
- Address
- The Old Chapel, London Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 4ED
- OS grid reference
- TL 536 379
- Coordinates
- 52.01913, 0.23806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chapel, now a house, was built in 1822. It is constructed of red brick with painted brick dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features a four by three bay layout, with the flank wall facing the street. The entrance front on the west side has a pedimented gable that includes a central date plaque. There is an added porch with a hipped roof beneath a segmental relieving arch, featuring double doors with a rectangular overlight and single doors on either side. The first floor has a range of two segmental arched nine-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has twelve-pane sash windows, all with painted stone sills. The flank wall facing the street includes full-height round arched recesses containing twelve-pane top-hung windows on the first floor and twenty-four-pane sashes on the ground floor, also with painted stone sills. The rear flank wall is similar, with a lean-to addition in the first bay.
Local climate
The Old Chapel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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 — 2 transactions since 2015
- 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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