Chapel Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. Cottage.
Chapel Cottages
- WRENN ID
- errant-bonework-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chapel Cottages, High Street, Bures St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TL 908 341
- Coordinates
- 51.97335, 0.77667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Cottages is a range of 18th century timber-framed and plastered cottages located on the south-east side of High Street in Bures St Mary. The cottages are built in two blocks, each with one storey and attics. The south-west block features three windows and two doorways, while the north-east block has two windows and a central boarded door. The windows are 19th century double-hung sashes with single vertical glazing bars. The roofs are tiled, with three sloping roofed dormers on the south-west block and two gabled dormers on the north-east block, all fitted with casements.
Local climate
Chapel Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings