CHAPEL AT ASHE HOUSE

CHAPEL AT ASHE HOUSE, AXMINSTER ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170923
Date first listed:: 08-May-1967
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT ASHE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT ASHE HOUSE, AXMINSTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170923
Date first listed:: 08-May-1967
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL AT ASHE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL AT ASHE HOUSE, AXMINSTER ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHAPEL AT ASHE HOUSE, AXMINSTER ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Musbury
National Grid Reference:: SY 27719 95971

Details

SY 29 NE MUSBURY AXMINSTER ROAD 10/430 8.5.67 Chapel at Ashe House

II

Chapel disused. Fabric said to be C14,restored and fenestrated in circa C17. Licensed in 1387. Small stone rubble chapel with freestone dressings and slate roof with stone coping to gable ends with apex finials. Two, three and four-light chamfered stone window with flat heads with hoodmoulds. Moulded Tudor-arched south doorway and blocked doorway in west end. Said to have been joined to house before house was reduced. Interior: indications of former coved plaster ceiling. Piscina with mould two-centred arch. In 1650 John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, was baptised in the chapel.

Listing NGR: SY2771995971

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 88109
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.