Chapel Cottage
CHAPEL COTTAGE, CHILTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031736
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL COTTAGE, CHILTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031736
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL COTTAGE, CHILTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL COTTAGE, CHILTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clare
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76781 46497
Details
1. CLARE CLARE
2006 Chilton Road
19.12.61. Chapel Cottage
TL 74 NE 12/137
II*
2.
Formerly the Chapel of St Mary Magdalene of circa 1190 which was turned into
a house shortly after it was dissolved in 1550.
A flint rubble building with stone quoins. 1 storey and attics. There are the
remains of original windows, blocked. On the north side there is a C12 semi-circular
arched doorway with capitals, but the shafts are missing. Inside the archway
there is a C13 pointed arch. Roof thatched on the north side and C20 interlocking
tiles on the south. There is the moulded brick base of a Tudor shafted chimney
stack, with rebuilt square shafts. The interior has heavy timber-framing. The
main beams have broad chamfers and carved stops. One beam has embattled ornamentation.
Listing NGR: TL7678146497
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282956
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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