Chapel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Chapel Farmhouse

WRENN ID
small-railing-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Chapel Farmhouse, Woodbridge Road, Bredfield, IP13 6AW
OS grid reference
TM 266 525
Coordinates
52.12434, 1.31027
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chapel Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on Bredfield Road. It features a timber frame that is rendered and colourwashed, topped with a plain tiled roof that was originally thatched. The building has two storeys and follows a three-cell baffle-entry plan with three bays.

On the entrance front, there is a gabled single-storey porch from the 20th century to the left of centre. To the left of the porch, there is a three-light casement window with a cambered head, and to the right, there are two similar windows. The first floor has three 19th-century three-light casement windows. A ridge stack is positioned above the porch. The right gable wall is blank and has a two-storey flat-roofed 20th-century addition with a two-light metal-framed window. The left gable end features a three-light casement window on the ground floor and a two-light casement window with a cambered head on the first floor.

At the rear, there is a 20th-century projection on the left with a single-storey porch in the re-entrant angle. The rear of the 17th-century range is mostly windowless, except for a single-light first-floor window to the right, located below the chimney, and a two-light window on the first floor.

Inside, the ground floor has chamfered and end-stopped ceiling beams, along with similarly moulded rafters. The walls display exposed studding with bracing. One outer room on the ground floor features a chamfered fireplace bressumer. Additionally, there are two late-17th-century brackets in one first-floor bedroom, decorated with acanthus leaves and roundels, which were likely brought from another location.

Local climate

Chapel Farmhouse 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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