Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.

Chapel House

WRENN ID
seventh-hinge-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1978
Type
House
Address
Chapel House, Chapel Green, Long Melford, CO10 9HX
OS grid reference
TL 862 450
Coordinates
52.07245, 0.71625
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chapel House is a timber-framed house dating from the 16th to 17th century. It was refronted in the 19th century using grey gault brick and features corner pilasters. The building has two storeys and a three-window range on both the west and south fronts, with double-hung sash windows that lack glazing bars. The west front includes three-light outer windows and a single light center window with a semi-circular headed upper sash, all with reconstructed stone surrounds and cornices supported by console brackets. A central four-panel door, featuring round-headed upper panels and a semi-circular fanlight, is framed by a reconstructed stone doorcase with panelled pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. The south front has a canted bay at the west end on the ground storey. The rear of the house is timber-framed and plastered, showcasing an 18th-century eight-panel door with a shouldered architrave and a dentilled cornice on console brackets. The roof is tiled with old tiles, hipped at the south end, and has overhanging eaves on shaped brackets. There are three original chimney stacks, each with four grouped octagonal shafts with moulded caps on a square base, while others have two octagonal shafts that have been restored or rebuilt. To the north of Chapel House are the Maltings and Granary, associated with Little St Marys.

Local climate

Chapel House 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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