Cemetery Cottage Spire House is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1995. Combined lodge and chapel. 5 related planning applications.
Cemetery Cottage Spire House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-copper-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1995
- Type
- Combined lodge and chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cemetery Cottage, also known as Spire House, is a combined lodge and chapel of rest built in 1861 by local architect and engineer Richard Sheppard. The building is in Gothic style and constructed from red brick sourced from Coales brickworks in Chicheley, featuring sandstone dressings and steeply pitched slate roofs with both plain and hexagonal slates. It has a T-shaped layout, with the chapel forming the main arm of the T and the lodge as the crossbar.
A notable feature is the spire above the porch, which sits at the intersection of the two arms of the T. The building is one to two storeys high with irregular fenestration. The south front includes a triple arched window to the right, an arched doorcase, and a two-storey projecting gable to the left that has arched windows and a 20th-century door. The north front features a projecting two-storey gable to the right and a two-storey porch to the left, which has an arched window above an arched doorcase, topped with a spire that includes lucarnes and a gilded weathervane with a date. The west gable has an oculus with a cinquefoil design, while the east gable features a large arched window with a trefil above.
The interior of the chapel is reported to have arched braces on stone corbels, with collars and principal rafters, as well as a ceramic tiled floor that has a decorative margin and a quatrefoil centre feature. There is a small extension added to the southwest in the 1970s.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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