Chapel House
CHAPEL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177039
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel House
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177039
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL HOUSE
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 HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cardington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 50612 95347
Details
SO 5095-5195 CARDINGTON C.P. CARDINGTON
12/30 Chapel House -
- II
Shown on O.S. map as Avonlea. Farmhouse, now house. Probably late C16 with C18 and mid-to late C19 alterations and additions; 1980 addition. Roughly coursed and uncoursed sandstone rubble, partly rendered, with timber framed core; plain tile roof. One barn with 2-bay projecting gabled cross-wing to left. 2 storeys. Integral brick end stack to right, large external lateral stack to left with C19 brick top, and external stone and brick end stack at rear. C19 gabled eaves dormer to right with 2-light wooden casement; ground-floor 3-light wooden casement to right (formerly door - see straight joints beneath), and cross-wing with 2-light metal attic casement and ground-floor 3-light wooden-framed metal casement, both with segmental brick relieving arches; half-glazed boarded door in angle of cross-wing with late C20 lean-to store and timber-framed glazed porch. Right-hand return front with straight joint between C16 masonry of stack and C19 masonry replacing former timber frame. C20 two-storey stone addition set back to right. C19 gabled wing at rear. Interior: left-hand ground-floor room with chamfered spine beam, supported by chamfered and stopped post at one end; large open fireplace with chamfered stone reveals and former ceiling beam inserted as lintel in C20; small square wooden wall cupboard to left with H-hinges; cross- wing has square-panelled timber framed cross-walls; ground-floor front room of cross-wing has been remodelled in the C18 with new plastered ceiling beam inserted transversely (see mortices for former spine beams); C18 door with raised and fielded panels and C18 panelled doors with H-hinges flanking C20 fireplace; old winder staircase in cross-wing. Despite the rebuilding of most of the external walls in the C19 this house still retains much timber framing and other earlier features internally.
Listing NGR: SO5060495341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259571
- 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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