Chapel House
CHAPEL HOUSE, CROWN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288981
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel House
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL HOUSE, CROWN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288981
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL HOUSE, CROWN HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHAPEL HOUSE, THE STREET
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, CROWN HILL
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Botesdale
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0486575880
Details
TM 0475
6/31
BOTESDALE
THE STREET, CROWN HILL
(SOUTH EAST SIDE)
Chapel House
GV
II
House, built as accommodation for adjacent Grammar School founded by Sir N.
Bacon in 1576; on earlier foundations, possibly those of late C14 or early C15
chantry chapel, see St. Botolph's Chapel (q.v.); converted and altered late
C19. Timber frame, rendered with red brick end wall and later red brick
casing to rear. Steeply pitched machine tiled roof continuous with that of
St. Botolph's Chapel. 7 bay, 3 cell plan probably with a lobby entry
orignally. Tall 2 storeys and attic with cellar. In cross entry position
steps up to a boarded architraved door with shaped brackets to hood, flanking
cellar windows, offset plinth, to left 2 transomed 4-light part opening metal
frame casements with hoodboards. First floor has similar smaller casements,
at eaves projecting timbers to right and centre with mortices for oblong and
diamond mullions suggesting oriel windows of 5 and 7-lights. Axial ridge
stack to left of centre with a C19 cross axial addition, original internal
axial stack to right is part of English bond gable end wall with 2 recesses in
attic, C19 rebuilding towards head. To rear 3 and 4-light casements in brick
casing, two 3-light gabled dormers, boarded cross entry door and half glazed
lobby entry door in C20 porches. Interior: early red brick in cellar with
splayed window embrasure, ground floor chamfered door jambs into service end
with an early 3-panelled door, large plain binding beams to high ceilings,
C18 panelling in hall, stop chamfered fireplace bressumer in parlour, early
C19 stair with slat balusters in front of stack. First floor stop chamfered
doorways from stairs to chambers, arched braces to tie beams, stop chambered
cross axial binding beams, double butt purlin roof with cranked windbraces to
upper purlins, collars to principals.
Listing NGR: TM0486575880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280752
- 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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