Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery

CHIPPENHAM

ST9372 LONDON ROAD 930-1/13/81 (South side) 22/06/78 Caretaker's cottage, Chippenham Cemetery

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Cemetery keeper's cottage, now his office. c1854. Squared and coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings and ridge stacks, slate roof. T-shaped plan with a lean-to in the rear angle. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: single story; 2-window range. Lower but similarly gabled and roofed to the cemetery chapels (qv), i.e. steeply-pitched with coped gable ends. The entrance is in the left return. A forward-facing gable to the left has a small lancet over a 2-light splayed bay with a hipped stone roof and quatrefoils to diagonally square tracery. To the right is a 2-light window with trefoil heads. The heavy stack to the centre ridge is offset below 2 octagonal shafts with moulded tops; a similar single-shafted stack is to the rear. The gable to the rear right has a quatrefoil to an oculus over a large shallow pointed-arched stone-mullioned 3-light window. INTERIOR: altered but original fireplaces are said to remain behind boarding.

Listing NGR: ST9334872416