Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1973. House. 6 related planning applications.
Chapel House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-rubblework-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Gillingham and Rainham MP: Naushabah Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chapel House, 1 and 2, Pump Lane, ME8 7TJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 811 677
- Coordinates
- 51.37954, 0.60219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel House, now divided into two dwellings, dates from the mid-to-late 15th century and was altered in the early-to-mid 16th century, with further changes made in the early 20th century. The house is timber-framed, with rendered rear and weatherboarded sections, and features a large brick external stack on the right-hand side, a rear left-hand gable stack, and a rear central external stack. The roof is tiled with a hipped cross range and a left-hand hipped section. The plan is a 3-room parallel configuration, with a rear outshut to the right-hand side of No.1.
The two-storey main building, with an attic and basement, has a nine-window front. The front elevation features close-studded timbering with a continuous jettied first floor in three sections, the left-hand section projecting with a hipped roof front and rear, and a jettied return. Most windows are late 16th century, with some clerestory windows which are blocked on the first floor. Many are 19th-century casements; the right-hand and left-hand sides of the middle section have ground-floor 3-light transom and mullion windows with small flanking lights, with a 20th-century window above. The left-hand one-window range has 19th-century cross windows, and a curved brace with a moulded base to the corner post. A large right-hand stack is set back towards the front and connects to the ridge section of the roof. The rear features a plain 20th-century door, with 20th-century windows above and to the side of the outshut. The left-hand return is weatherboarded to the upper floor, with 20th-century windows, and a rear 20th-century extension with a gable stack and a 20th-century door. The rear also has a central single-storey gable with a stack, and a shallow raking dormer to the attic. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Chapel House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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