Chapel House Post Office the Old Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1955. Post office, house. 7 related planning applications.

Chapel House Post Office the Old Manse

WRENN ID
fallen-attic-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1955
Type
Post office, house
Address
Chapel House Post Office the Old Manse, the Street, East Bergholt, CO7 6TB
OS grid reference
TM 069 346
Coordinates
51.9715, 1.01104
Source
Historic England listing

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

Description

Chapel House, the Post Office, and The Old Manse are a pair of houses with a probable 17th-century core that were remodeled in the early 19th century. The buildings are timber-framed and covered in white brick, topped with a plain tile roof and red brick stacks. They are two stories high with a two-window center range and gabled cross wings on each side. The left wing is integrated into the Post Office, which includes a single-storey extension that is of no special interest. The main range features six-panel doors with radial fanlights set under round arches. There are 16-pane sash windows in reveals with sills, and cambered brick arches above the ground floor and wings. The roof is steeply pitched, with a central stack on the main range and ridge stacks on the cross wings. The building was undergoing renovation at the time of the last survey, and the interior was not inspected.

Local climate

Chapel House Post Office the Old Manse 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 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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