Chapel House

TM 03 NW SHELLEY CHURCH ROAD 2/99 Chapel House

GV II

House. C15 with later alterations and additions. Exposed, jettied timber frame to main (right) range, plastered left range and right return lean-to. Red plain tiled roofs, lower to left range. External left and off centre right red brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys. The left range at one time used as a bakehouse and then a post office has original first floor mullion, C19/C20 red tiled ground floor former shop front extension with C20 casement. Main range moulded long wall jetty bressumer. 3 shafts with moulded capitals and bases support the jetty brackets. First floor 2 three-light and central 2-light mullions, that to left original, the others in original positions ground floor, left angled bay, right 5-light mullion. Left 4-centre arched doorway. Some original mullions to rear and a segmental arched doorway. There is a simple coved hood porch on plain supports to rear door. Internal features include:- Hearring bone brick floor. Inserted back-to-back inglenook fireplaces, one with cambered mantel beam. The other with moulded beam, this with early C20 Adam and Eve plaster motif over. Moulded ceiling and bridging joists to ground floor. Vertically boarded door to chimney-side staircase. Chamfered 4-centre arched doorway. Signs of roof raise to left range. Interlocked plain and angled vertically boarded wall. Jowled storey posts, arched braces mainly cut away. Cambered tie beam. Halved and bridled top plate scarf.

Listing NGR: TM0313038484