Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9372 LONDON ROAD
930-1/13/81 (South side)
22/06/78 Caretaker's cottage, Chippenham
Cemetery

II

Cemetery keeper's cottage, now his office. c1854. Squared and
coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings and ridge stacks,
slate roof. T-shaped plan with a lean-to in the rear angle.
Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: single story; 2-window range. Lower but similarly
gabled and roofed to the cemetery chapels (qv), i.e.
steeply-pitched with coped gable ends. The entrance is in the
left return. A forward-facing gable to the left has a small
lancet over a 2-light splayed bay with a hipped stone roof and
quatrefoils to diagonally square tracery. To the right is a
2-light window with trefoil heads. The heavy stack to the
centre ridge is offset below 2 octagonal shafts with moulded
tops; a similar single-shafted stack is to the rear.
The gable to the rear right has a quatrefoil to an oculus over
a large shallow pointed-arched stone-mullioned 3-light window.
INTERIOR: altered but original fireplaces are said to remain
behind boarding.

Listing NGR: ST9334872416

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558402

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)