Chapel House And Providence Street Baptist Chapel

STAPLEHURST CHAPEL LANE TQ 7843 (North side)

5/70 Chapel House and Providence 23. 5.67 Street Baptist Chapel

GV II

House and Baptist chapel. House C17 or early C18, chapel C19. House: timber framed. Ground floor clad with beaded weatherboarding, first floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to Lane, facing west. 2 storeys and attic, on low brick plinth. Roof half-hipped to left (north) and extended to abut chapel to right. Rear stack to left, and rear stack to right of centre. 2 small hipped dormers with moulded wooden cornices and leaded 2-light casements. Regular 3-window front of leaded wooden cross windows, that to centre narrower. Central half-glazed door under flat corniced and bracketed hood. Rear lean-to. Interior not inspected. Chapel: timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to house, projecting forwards slightly from right gable end. 2-storey height on red and grey brick plinth. Gabled. Broad front gable end has recessed paned light to gable, and regular 2-window front to first floor of recessed 4-paned lights. Two recessed 8-paned lights to ground floor, each with a broad hinged panelled shutter. Central panelled double doors. Rendered single- storey gabled extension to south side. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ7871543192