Jubilee Room

ST 91 NE BERWICK ST. JOHN RUSHMORE PARK

9/62 Jubilee Room

GV II

Chapel, now cottage. 1887 for General Pitt-Rivers. Ashlar and timber-framing with different patterns of brick nogging, tiled roof, brick stack. Single storey and attic, 1-window front facing drive. Large gabled porch to right with Tudor-arched doorway and single light with hoodmoulds, terracotta heraldic arms to gable, cusped bargeboards, to left is cross window with Tudor-arched lights and hoodmould. Timber-framed first floor has wooden 3- light mullioned and transomed window with decorative leading and gable with bargeboards, lead downpipes with animal decoration. Left return has large stone square bay with 5-light double- transomed window with coloured and painted glass, battlemented parapet with corbel table, gable over has decorated iron sundial with words "Tempus fugit". Rear has one 3-light mullioned and transomed window to first floor. Right return has similar window and gable with date 1887 in wrought iron. Steeply-pitched roof has wooden and copper cupola with turned balusters to openings and ogee capping with weather vane. Interior has one large room, formerly the chapel, with decorated plaster panelling and open roof. General Pitt-Rivers built this picturesque cottage as a chapel for the tenants of Rushmore Estate, part of a picturesque group with North Lodge (q.v.), and entrance gates and walls (q.v.). (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975 p.526.)

Listing NGR: ST9576519497