An historic analysis at Historic England Level 3 was carried out by Leigh Alston in September 2019 of St Chloe, Layer de la Haye, to fulfil a condition of planning permission for demolition.<1> The brick and tiled small house or cottage known as St Chloe lies on the southern side of Abberton Road immediately east of Malting Green, which represents a surviving fragment of the medieval heath that dominated the area until the early-19th century. The building is absent from the 1838 tithe map but appears on the 1874 Ordnance Survey alongside a Methodist chapel built in or about 1864. A history published by the vicar of the parish in 1972 states that the chapel was demolished in 1970 and that St Chloe, then called Rose Cottage, was at one time used for Bible Classes. The two structures were physically linked by a new porch added to the chapel in the late-19th century. The two-storied building reflected the standard domestic layout of the Victorian period, with two ground-floor rooms heated by gable chimneys and divided by a central stair passage, and it was probably designed for a minister or caretaker. The shallow-pitched softwood roof structure suggests it was contemporary or broadly contemporary with the chapel. The cottage contains a number of anomalies, the most obvious of which is the greater height of the roof over its staircase and right-hand section relative to that of the left-hand rooms. This step of some 30 cm creates an asymmetrical appearance suggesting an extension, but the building was shown with its current proportions in 1874 and the ostensibly 19th century sash windows of the front wall are identical. Any precise analysis is hampered by a thick layer of 20th century textured cement which conceals the walls externally and by extensive dry-lining which does the same internally. A narrow extension was added to the rear wall between 1920 and 1960, and a major refurbishment of the 1970s or 80s stripped the cottage of any remaining historic fixtures and fittings apart from the front windows and pine floorboards; the staircase and internal partitions were renewed, the fireplaces blocked, removed or rebuilt and even the ceilings clad in plasterboard.