Laws Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. Chapel.

Laws Chapel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1967
Type
Chapel
Address
Laws Chapel, Laws Lane, King's Cliffe
OS grid reference
TL 007 971
Coordinates
52.56242, -0.51493
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laws Chapel is a building that was originally a house and has since been converted into a chapel, now serving as an outbuilding. It dates from the 18th century and early 19th century. The structure is made of squared coursed limestone and brick, featuring an ashlar facade and a Collyweston slate roof. It was originally designed as a single-unit plan and stands two storeys tall.

The main front consists of three bays, with the center bay slightly projecting forward. This bay contains an arch-headed doorway, which is now blocked, along with flanking arch-headed windows that are also blocked. The first floor has a square-headed window in the center, which is likewise blocked. The building has a plinth and a raised band between the floors, with a pediment over the center bay and a moulded stone cornice with an upstand over the flanking bays. The roof is hipped.

On the left elevation, there is a three-window range of 19th-century sash and casement windows beneath wooden lintels. To the right, there is a door with one fielded panel, and to the left, a 20th-century plank door, both also under wooden lintels. An eaves dormer with a leaded casement window is located to the left. There is an ashlar gable parapet between the center and left bays, along with a stone stack at the ridge. The bay on the left is partially brick and of a different build. This building is linked to No. 4 Bridge Street. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to contain a fireplace with a bolection moulded surround and an 18th-century staircase.

Local climate

Laws Chapel 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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