Studio at Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 2002. Music studio.
Studio at Chapel House
- WRENN ID
- turning-corner-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 2002
- Type
- Music studio
- Address
- Studio at Chapel House, Chapel Lane, Horham
- OS grid reference
- TM 221 714
- Coordinates
- 52.29621, 1.2568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Studio at Chapel House is a music studio built around 1971 for the composer Benjamin Britten. It features painted brick construction with a pantile roof and plain timber barge-boards, and is a single-storey building. The north-east front has a single doorway to the right with a painted door, while the north-west gable wall is blind. The south-east gable wall includes a long, narrow window positioned high up, and the south-west front has a large casement window that overlooks the adjoining Suffolk fields. This studio was specifically designed as a quiet space for Britten to compose, away from the growing fame that had begun to affect his life in Aldeburgh. Britten lived at Chapel House with his partner Peter Pears.
Local climate
Studio at Chapel House 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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