Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. A C19 Chapel. 7 related planning applications.
Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- guardian-bracket-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Baptist Chapel, the Street, Laxfield, IP13 8DU
- OS grid reference
- TM 293 723
- Coordinates
- 52.30147, 1.36275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Baptist Chapel, dating from 1810, was enlarged in 1850 and renovated and re-seated in 1897. The chapel is constructed of red brick with a white brick facade, featuring a first-floor brick band. The roof is hipped with two spans and covered in glazed black pantiles. The symmetrical facade has two slightly inset bays, each containing a flush-frame sash window with small panes. Matching doorways sit below, each with a six-panel door, moulded architrave, and a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. A tall, semi-circular headed window is centrally positioned, beneath a tablet commemorating the martyrdom of John Noyes near the site in 1557. The three-bay returns are inset with two-light casement windows set within flat arches. A gallery extends around three sides, supported by slender cast iron columns. The majority of the gallery benches are original, while other seating and the pulpit date from the 1897 renovation.
Local climate
Baptist Chapel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- 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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