Description

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SK48NE
6/12

ASTON-CUM-AUGHTON
Aughton
MAIN STREET (west side)
No 97 (Chapel House)

(Formerly listed as Old Methodist Chapel)

11.6.75

GV
II

Methodist Chapel now house. Dated 1843, later porch and wing added c1900. Horizontally-tooled, coursed sandstone; Welsh slate roof. One storey, three bays with two-storey wing to rear right. Central, double, panelled door and fanlight with radial glazing bars enclosed within later C19 ashlar porch having pilastered and open-pedimented surround to cavetto-moulded and rusticated round-arched opening with large keystone. Flanking windows have renewed casements in tall, square-faced surrounds with projecting sills. Plaque over porch with some inscription chiselled off but retaining words: 'ERECTED JULY / 1843'. Shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings. Left return: wing in brick, save bricks with commemorative initials. Right return: wing faced in stone.

Interior not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SK4546986615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26575122

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)