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Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery

A Grade II Listed Building in Chippenham, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4507 / 51°27'2"N

Longitude: -2.0971 / 2°5'49"W

OS Eastings: 393348

OS Northings: 172416

OS Grid: ST933724

Mapcode National: GBR 2SJ.YDV

Mapcode Global: VH96C.LSPS

Plus Code: 9C3VFW23+75

Entry Name: Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery

Listing Date: 22 June 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268053

English Heritage Legacy ID: 462279

ID on this website: 101268053

Location: Wiltshire, SN15

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Chippenham

Built-Up Area: Chippenham

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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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

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