Chapel at Ashe House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. A Medieval Chapel.

Chapel at Ashe House

WRENN ID
south-pewter-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1967
Type
Chapel
Period
Medieval
Address
Chapel at Ashe House, Axminster Road, Musbury
OS grid reference
SY 277 959
Coordinates
50.7588, -3.02614
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The chapel at Ashe House is a disused structure believed to date from the 14th century, with restorations and window alterations made around the 17th century. It was licensed for use in 1387. This small chapel is built of stone rubble with freestone dressings and features a slate roof, complete with stone coping on the gable ends and apex finials. The windows are chamfered stone, arranged in two, three, and four-light configurations, with flat heads and hoodmoulds. The south doorway is moulded in a Tudor arch style, and there is a blocked doorway on the west end. It is said that the chapel was once connected to the house before the house was reduced in size. Inside, there are signs of a former coved plaster ceiling and a piscina with a moulded two-centred arch. Notably, in 1650, John Churchill, the First Duke of Marlborough, was baptised in this chapel.

Local climate

Chapel at Ashe House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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