Chapel Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1961. Chapel, house.
Chapel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-tower-ivy
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1961
- Type
- Chapel, house
- Address
- Chapel Cottage, Chilton Road, Clare
- OS grid reference
- TL 767 464
- Coordinates
- 52.0886, 0.57893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Cottage is a building that was originally the Chapel of St Mary Magdalene, dating from around 1190. It was converted into a house shortly after its dissolution in 1550. The structure is made of flint rubble with stone quoins and has one storey with attics. There are remnants of original windows that have been blocked. On the north side, there is a 12th-century semi-circular arched doorway featuring capitals, although the shafts are missing. Inside the archway, there is a 13th-century pointed arch. The roof is thatched on the north side and covered with 20th-century interlocking tiles on the south. A moulded brick base of a Tudor shafted chimney stack is present, with rebuilt square shafts. The interior showcases heavy timber-framing, with main beams that have broad chamfers and carved stops. One beam features embattled ornamentation.
Local climate
Chapel Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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