Chapel Cottage
CHAPEL COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337793
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337793
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL COTTAGE, HIGH 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 COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67395 30326
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD HIGH STREET (south-east side)
8/194 Chapel Cottage (formerly listed with Place house 2.5.53 as outbuilding) GV II
Ancillary building of uncertain purpose. C16, altered in C18/C19. Plastered brick and timber framing, partly weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2 bays facing NW, of a building which originally extended further to the SW. Garage with lean-to tiled roof to left. 2 storeys and attics. One 2-light window with roll-moulded wooden mullion and rectangular leaded panes. One group of 3 original windows of plastered brick, with segmental-pointed heads, with recessed spandrels and vertical iron bars. Plain boarded door. No front windows on first floor. Original sprockets below eaves. In rear wall, original wooden doorway with 4-centred head and recessed spandrels. The right return wall has inserted timber framing, clad with weatherboarding. The interior has richly moulded transverse and axial beams. There is little doubt that this was built by Serjeant William Bendlowes, but the local tradition that it was a chapel seems dubious historically, and is not confirmed by the characteristics of the building. It remains a possibility that it was built for some institutional purpose, or as a dower house. (S. Hyland, An Elizabethan Self-made Man of Law, Essex Countryside, March 1983, 22-4).
Listing NGR: TL6739530326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115333
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hyland, S, Essex Countryside in An Elizabethan Self Made Man of Law, (1983), 22-4
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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