Old Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Chapel House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-groin-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1955
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Chapel House is a house with origins in the 16th century, featuring alterations from the 18th century, a refronting from 1818, and a 20th-century extension to the left. The building is timber-framed, rendered, and partly covered in painted brick, with a white brick front and a plain tile roof. It has two storeys and a three-bay front, with the 20th-century extension of one bay set back on the left. The façade includes angle pilasters and an off-centre six-panel door in a pilastered doorcase that has panelled reveals and soffit. Above the door is a radial fanlight with a keyed elliptical archivolt. The windows are 12-pane sashes set in reveals with painted sills and cambered cement arches, along with a narrow eight-pane sash to the right of the door. The roof is hipped at the front and features corniced ridge stacks, with the 20th-century extension on the left side having flush 12-pane sashes.
Inside, the entrance hall has a chamfered beam and exposed joists, while a dragon beam on the left indicates a former jetty. The room to the right of the door displays a beam and joists with hollow chamfers and pyramid stops, leading to a kitchen at the rear that also has a chamfered beam, exposed joists, and studded walls, one of which contains reused moulded joists. The drawing room features moulded beams and early 19th-century elements, including an Adam style fireplace and door architrave, as well as six-panel doors. The staircase has replaced treads and a closed-string design with fluted column-on-twist balusters, fluted square newels, and turned and fluted newels on the first floor. An arched string runs above the stair at first-floor level, with a moulded ramped handrail and a panelled dado with fluted pilasters following the stair's line. On the first floor, the bathroom is inscribed with the date 1776, and the beams feature deep roll mouldings separated by hollow chamfers. There is also a small section of linenfold panelling, and a bedroom to the right shows a studded wall, a moulded front wall plate, and a section of moulded cambered tie beam.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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