Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1980. Ornamental building.
Chapel House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-sentry-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bexley
- Constituency
- Old Bexley and Sidcup MP: Mr Louie French (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1980
- Type
- Ornamental building
- Address
- Chapel House, 497, Blackfen Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 472 742
- Coordinates
- 51.44814, 0.11831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel House is an ornamental building designed to resemble a chapel, likely created around 1761 by Lancelot Brown as part of the layout of Danson Park. It was intended to serve as a focal point for views from the house across the lake, although it is now separated from the house by the A2 trunk road and modern houses. The building is constructed of brick, which is now roughcast. It features a pointed doorway with a quatrefoil in the tympanum, and two pointed windows that have two ogee-headed lights with a quatrefoil above each. On the south wall, there is a chimney-stack that imitates an embattled turret and includes looplights. The roof is tiled and adorned with ornate ridge tiles, and there is a small pointed spire at the north end topped with a weather vane.
Local climate
Chapel House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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