Chapel Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1967. A C16 Farmhouse.
Chapel Farm House
- WRENN ID
- riven-crypt-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Chapel Farm House, Leckhampstead
- OS grid reference
- SU 449 759
- Coordinates
- 51.48094, -1.35428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chapel Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of brick, with some exposed timber framing on the east side, and features tiled roofs. It has an L-shaped plan, with a 19th-century wing that projects forward to the south of the east end. This includes a 16th-century wing to the north and a 17th-century wing running east to west, with the early 16th-century wing partly overbuilt to the east. The entire structure was re-fronted in the 18th century, and there are some small 20th-century extensions to the north.
The house is two storeys high, with a brick band at the first floor level. It has a large panelled chimney on the east flank and another chimney on the ridge of the north wing. On the south elevation, to the right, there is a hipped projecting wing with a tripartite sash window. To the left, there are four tripartite sash windows, except for the third from the left, which is a single window above a six-panelled door. This door is topped with a four-pane rectangular fanlight and is set beneath a Doric porch supported by two columns, two pilasters, and an entablature.
Inside, the northern bay features three bays of timber framing, with chamfered and stopped joists in the northern bay. The main ground floor rooms have been remodelled, with a plaster cornice in the southwest room and large moulded beams in the eastern room, which also has cavetto and double ovolo moulding. One of these beams has mortices for a diamond mullioned window.
Local climate
Chapel Farm House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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