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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Date:: 2005-06-08
Reference:: IOE01/13455/31
Rights:: © Prof John N. Buxton. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 280752
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.