The Old Chantry is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. Educational. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Chantry
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-footing-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Educational
- Address
- The Old Chantry, Martley, WR6 6QA
- OS grid reference
- SO 757 599
- Coordinates
- 52.23727, -2.3562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Chantry is a building dating to 1913, originally designed as The Chantry School and master’s house. It was later used as a parish hall and caretaker's house. The architects were Corlette and Nicholson of Lincoln’s Inn, London, whose signed perspective drawing is preserved within the building.
The building is timber-framed with brick infill, set upon a brick plinth. Its roof is covered in plain tiles with a copper section, and it features a stack to the left and another off-centre on the ridge. The structure follows a basic "H" plan, incorporating classrooms in the right and centre ranges, with the master's house positioned to the left. The right cross-wing has a gable, as does the left side of the building, both gables being weatherboarded. The building is 1 1/2 storeys high, with six windows of varying sizes, predominantly small pine casement windows, alongside two larger windows – one in the gable of the school hall to the right, and another to the right of the master's house. An entrance is located to the left, accessing the house, and another entrance, set within a copper-roofed porch with a moulded cornice, is situated in the angle with the cross-wing to the right.
Local climate
The Old Chantry receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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