Cemetery Cottage Spire House

The following building shall be added to the list;

NEWPORT PAGNELL OUSEBANK STREET SP 84 SE 1/10006 Cemetery Cottage (Spire House)

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Combined lodge and chapel of rest. Built in 1861 by Richard Sheppard, a local architect and engineer, small 1970s SW extension. Gothic style. Red brick (from Coales brickworks in Chicheley) with sandstone dressings and steeply pitched slate roofs with courses of plain and hexagonal slates. T-shaped on plan , with the chapel forming the main arm of the T and the lodge the cross bar. The principal feature is the spire over the porch which fits into the intersection of the two arms of the T. One to two storeys. Irregular fenestration. South front has triple arched window to right, arched doorcase then two storey projecting gable with arched windows and C20 door to left in projection. North front has projecting two storey gable to right and projecting two storey porch to left with arched window over arched doorcase and spire with lucarnes and gilded weathervane with date. West gable has oculus with cinquefoil. East gable has large arched window with trefil above. Interior of chapel reported to have arched braces on stone corbels with collars and principal rafters. Ceramic tiled floor with decorative margin and quatrefoil centre feature.

Listing NGR: SP8784743998