Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery
CARETAKERS COTTAGE, CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268053
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- CARETAKERS COTTAGE, CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268053
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARETAKERS COTTAGE, CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY, LONDON 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:
- CARETAKERS COTTAGE, CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93348 72416
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9372 LONDON ROAD 930-1/13/81 (South side) 22/06/78 Caretaker's cottage, Chippenham Cemetery
II
Cemetery keeper's cottage, now his office. c1854. Squared and coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings and ridge stacks, slate roof. T-shaped plan with a lean-to in the rear angle. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: single story; 2-window range. Lower but similarly gabled and roofed to the cemetery chapels (qv), i.e. steeply-pitched with coped gable ends. The entrance is in the left return. A forward-facing gable to the left has a small lancet over a 2-light splayed bay with a hipped stone roof and quatrefoils to diagonally square tracery. To the right is a 2-light window with trefoil heads. The heavy stack to the centre ridge is offset below 2 octagonal shafts with moulded tops; a similar single-shafted stack is to the rear. The gable to the rear right has a quatrefoil to an oculus over a large shallow pointed-arched stone-mullioned 3-light window. INTERIOR: altered but original fireplaces are said to remain behind boarding.
Listing NGR: ST9334872416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462279
- 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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