Lodge House to Friends' Cemetery
Lodge House to Friends' Cemetery, 85, Broomfield Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271547
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge House to Friends' Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- Lodge House to Friends' Cemetery, 85, Broomfield Road
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271547
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge House to Friends' Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lodge House to Friends' Cemetery, 85, Broomfield 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:
- Lodge House to Friends' Cemetery, 85, Broomfield Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 70368 07689
Details
TL 70 NW
926-/7/10006
CHELMSFORD, FORMER MB
BROOMFIELD ROAD
No.85, Lodge House to Friends' Cemetery
GV
II
Cemetery lodge. Built in 1855 to the designs of Frederick Chancellor (1825-1918) a local architect. Italianate style. Stock brick with stone dressings to windows and projecting stone stringcourse at first floor cill level. Slate roof with two tall lateral brick stacks with decorated heads to the north and west flanks. L-shaped plan.
Two storeys; one window to the left with first floor double and ground floor triple round-headed cast iron windows with semi-circular stone heads, subdivided by marginal and horizontal glazing bars. Projecting eaves with exposed rafter feet and shaped brackets at the corners and under the ridge. Lean-to on south and single storey pitched roof extensions to the north with double round-headed window.
Internally, timber shutters to the window remain in situ.
Quaker meetings were held in a purpose built Meeting House in Duke Street Chelmsford (listed grade II) between 1824 and 1957.
Frederick Chancellor came to Chelmsford in 1846 and became the first Mayor of Chelmsford in 1888. He designed educational, commercial, agricultural, industrial and residential buildings. The Lodge is an example of his work early in his career while he was a partner in the firm Beadle, Son and Chancellor. Drawings are available in the Essex Records Office reference D/F8.596.
Listing NGR: TL7036807689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454414
- 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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