Elfin Cottage
Elfin Cottage, 86, Chittoe, Chippenham, SN15 2EL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033915
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Elfin Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Elfin Cottage, 86, Chittoe, Chippenham, SN15 2EL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033915
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Elfin Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Elfin Cottage, 86, Chittoe, Chippenham, SN15 2EL
- Statutory Address 2:
- Elfin Cottage, 86, Chittoe, Chippenham, SN15 2EL
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:
- Elfin Cottage, 86, Chittoe, Chippenham, SN15 2EL
- Statutory Address:
- Elfin Cottage, 86, Chittoe, Chippenham, SN15 2EL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bromham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST9577166670
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/01/2020.
ST 96 NE
2/6
BROMHAM
CHITTOE
No 86 (Elfin Cottage)
(Formerly listed as Park Cottage, previously listed as Elfin Cottage)
19.3.62
GV
II
House, C14 origins with C16 inserted floor and C18 alterations. Timber-frame and painted rubble stone with thatched roof, half-hipped each end, ridge stack and south end stack. One and a half storeys. Leaded light casement windows, some C18, mostly C20. North end wall has jettied upper floor. East front has stone and render chimney wall with blocked former through passage door to left and casement pair beyond. Eaves casement pair in eyebrow dormer above. Exposed framing to right of stack with large gable, original barge boards and pendant finial. Two ground floor casement pairs, one C18, one C20, first floor C18 triple casement. To right, C20 casement pair in rubble stone with exposed timbers above. Rear rebuilt in rubble stone with one C18 triple casement. Datestone IP 1750. C20 south west wing.
Interior: former hall-house with two raised cruck trusses. One surviving windbrace. Exceptional, four panel compartmental ceiling with deep chamfered beams, pyramid-and-bar stops and carved oval panel at centre intersection. Large beam in room to south of passage.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311156
- 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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