Description

TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD HIGH STREET
(south-east side)

8/194 Chapel Cottage (formerly
listed with Place house
2.5.53 as outbuilding)

GV II

Ancillary building of uncertain purpose. C16, altered in C18/C19. Plastered
brick and timber framing, partly weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay
tiles. 2 bays facing NW, of a building which originally extended further to the
SW. Garage with lean-to tiled roof to left. 2 storeys and attics. One 2-light
window with roll-moulded wooden mullion and rectangular leaded panes. One group
of 3 original windows of plastered brick, with segmental-pointed heads, with
recessed spandrels and vertical iron bars. Plain boarded door. No front
windows on first floor. Original sprockets below eaves. In rear wall, original
wooden doorway with 4-centred head and recessed spandrels. The right return
wall has inserted timber framing, clad with weatherboarding. The interior has
richly moulded transverse and axial beams. There is little doubt that this was
built by Serjeant William Bendlowes, but the local tradition that it was a
chapel seems dubious historically, and is not confirmed by the characteristics
of the building. It remains a possibility that it was built for some
institutional purpose, or as a dower house. (S. Hyland, An Elizabethan Self-made
Man of Law, Essex Countryside, March 1983, 22-4).

Listing NGR: TL6739530326

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26622170

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings