Chapel House

Chapel House was built as accommodation for the adjacent Grammar School founded by Sir Nicholas Bacon in 1576. The building is situated on earlier foundations, possibly dating back to a late 14th or early 15th century chantry chapel. It was converted and altered in the late 19th century. The house is timber framed, with a rendered facade and red brick end wall and rear casing. It has a steeply pitched machine tiled roof that aligns with that of nearby St. Botolph's Chapel.

The house originally comprised seven bays and three cells, likely with a lobby entry. It is two stories high with an attic and includes a cellar. A stepped entrance leads to a boarded architraved door with shaped brackets, flanked by cellar windows. An offset plinth is visible, and on the left side are two transomed four-light casement windows with hoodboards. The first floor has smaller, similar casements. Projecting timbers at the eaves to the right and centre display mortices suggesting original oriel windows of five and seven lights. An axial ridge stack is located to the left of centre, with a 19th-century cross-axial addition. The original axial stack on the right side is part of an English bond gable end wall, which features two recesses in the attic and 19th-century rebuilding near the head. The rear of the property incorporates three- and four-light casements in brick casing, two three-light gabled dormers, a boarded cross-entry door, and a half-glazed lobby entry door set within 20th-century porches.

The cellar contains early red brick with a splayed window embrasure. The ground floor has chamfered door jambs leading to the service area and includes an early three-panelled door. Large, plain binding beams support the high ceilings. The hall features 18th-century panelling, while the parlour has a stop-chamfered fireplace bressumer. A 19th-century staircase with slat balusters is positioned in front of a stack. On the first floor are stop-chamfered doorways from the stairs to the chambers, arched braces to the tie beams, stop-chamfered cross-axial binding beams, a double butt-purlin roof with cranked wind braces to upper purlins, and collars to the principals.