Studio at Chapel House
STUDIO AT CHAPEL HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272441
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Studio at Chapel House
- Statutory Address:
- STUDIO AT CHAPEL HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272441
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Studio at Chapel House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STUDIO AT CHAPEL HOUSE, 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:
- STUDIO AT CHAPEL HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2217471447
Details
The entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 22 March 2017.
1222/0/10006
HORHAM
CHAPEL LANE
Studio at Chapel House
GV
II
Music studio. c. 1971. Built for Benjamin Britten. Painted brick with a pantile roof and plain timber barge-boards. Single storey.
North-east front has single doorway to right with painted door. North-west gable wall blind. South-east gable wall has single long narrow window placed high up in the wall. South-west front has large casement window facing out over the adjoining Suffolk fields.
This studio was built for Benjamin Britten when he moved here to Chapel House in 1971. It was designed and built specifically as a quiet place where Britten could compose undisturbed, far away from the increasing world wide fame which had begun to impinge on his life at Aldeburgh. Britten lived at Chapel House with his partner Peter Pears.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489854
- 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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