Chailey House is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. House.
Chailey House
- WRENN ID
- dim-moat-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chailey House, Rufford Road, Wellow
- OS grid reference
- SK 666 663
- Coordinates
- 53.19043, -1.00434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chailey House is an estate manager's house built in 1876 by John Birch for the Savile family. It is designed in the Gothic revival style and constructed of brick with ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with plain tiles from the 20th century and features both gabled and hipped sections. The building has a chamfered plinth and a moulded, corbelled jetty on the north side, along with elaborate bargeboards that have drop finials and rainwater heads decorated with an owl motif.
The house is two storeys high and has a square plan with three bays. The windows consist of latticed iron casements set within ashlar and moulded brick mullions, transoms, reveals, and hood moulds. On the north front, there is a projecting gabled bay on the left and two smaller gables on the right. The central gabled porch features a brick plinth, two round piers, and a weatherstripped door, flanked by single casements. Above the porch, there are three casements and a gable plaque with an owl.
The east front has three gables, with a setback door to the left and two casements to the right. The rear elevation includes a central door with a datestone inscribed '1876' above it, flanked by two casements on the left and three on the right. Above this, there are five casements, with the central one dating from the 19th century.
Local climate
Chailey House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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