Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1990. A C15 House. 3 related planning applications.

Chapel House

WRENN ID
spare-corridor-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1990
Type
House
Address
Chapel House, Church Road, Shelley, IP7 5QX
OS grid reference
TM 031 384
Coordinates
52.00762, 0.95825
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Chapel House is a house dating from the 15th century, with later alterations and additions. The main range on the right features an exposed, jettied timber frame, while the left range is plastered and includes a right return lean-to. The roofs are covered with red plain tiles, sloping lower on the left range. There are external red brick chimney stacks on the left and off-centre right. The house has two storeys. The left range, which was once used as a bakehouse and later as a post office, retains an original first-floor mullion and has a 19th or 20th-century red tiled ground floor extension that features a 20th-century casement window.

The main range has a moulded long wall jetty bressumer supported by three shafts with moulded capitals and bases. The first floor includes two three-light and a central two-light mullion window, with the left window being original. The ground floor features a left-angled bay and a right five-light mullion window. There is a left four-centre arched doorway, some original mullions at the rear, and a segmental arched doorway. A simple coved hood porch with plain supports leads to the rear door.

Inside, notable features include a herringbone brick floor, back-to-back inglenook fireplaces—one with a cambered mantel beam and the other with a moulded beam featuring an early 20th-century Adam and Eve plaster motif above. The ground floor has a moulded ceiling and bridging joists, a vertically boarded door to the chimney-side staircase, and a chamfered four-centre arched doorway. There are signs of a roof raise on the left range, with interlocked plain and angled vertically boarded walls, jowled storey posts, and mainly cut-away arched braces. The house also has a cambered tie beam and a halved and bridled top plate scarf.

Local climate

Chapel House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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