Chapel Cottage

TL 72 NW WETHERSFIELD CODHAM'S LANE (south side)

3/141 Chapel Cottage 21.12.67

GV II

Chapel, converted to a cottage. Medieval, altered in C16 and C18. Walls of stone rubble and C18 brickwork, plastered, gables timber framed and weatherboarded, roofed with C20 red clay tiles. Rectangular plan aligned NE-SW, with large C16 external stack on NW side, and C20 lean-to W.C. with corrugated asbestos roof at N corner. One storey with attics. SE elevation, 3 C20 casements, and one more in flat-roofed dormer. C20 plain boarded door. Roof half-hipped at both ends. The original rubble walls are 0.60-0.70 metre thick. A large section in the middle of the SE side has been rebuilt in brick, plastered inside and out, and at the SW end C18 brick underpinning and 3 short buttresses of brick indicate some repair. The external stack is plastered. 2 plain-chamfered transverse beams, joists plastered to the soffits. Near the NE end of the SE side is a piscina with projecting basin and sexfoiled drain, on the basis of which the RCHM dated the building as C14. The arch above it has been rebuilt in C18 brick and the wall pierced to make a window. 2 C20 grates to external stack. The roof is C19 or C20. RCHM 4.

Listing NGR: TL7111931284