United Reform Chapel
UNITED REFORM CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163341
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORM CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163341
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORM CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE
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:
- UNITED REFORM CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Houghton and Wyton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28056 72131
Details
HOUGHTON AND WYTON CHAPEL LANE 1. 5140 (west side) Houghton TL 28 72 13/24 United Reform Chapel II 2. Circa 1840 Nonconformist Chapel. Gault brick. Low-pitch slate roof with deep overhang at eaves. Pedimented gable end with bracket modillions and bulls eye window with radiating glazing bars to tympanum. Two semi-circular headed hung sashes with glazing bars flank gault brick porch with pedimented gable end. Semi-circular headed arch to doorway. Panelled double doors. Similar windows to side elevations. Interior with raked floor. Gallery on fluted cast iron columns with palmette capitals. Two iron lyre boot scrapers at entry. Wrought iron fence on brick sill to road. Associated with Potto Brown. (N Pevsner p 267).
Listing NGR: TL2805672131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54069
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 267
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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