Chantry House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Chantry House
- WRENN ID
- south-brass-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chantry House, High Street, Turvey, MK43 8EP
- OS grid reference
- SP 940 525
- Coordinates
- 52.16354, -0.62591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chantry House is a late 19th-century house, likely a significant remodelling of an earlier building. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a fishscale tile roof with stone gable coping. The house has a six-bay plan and is one storey high with attics. There are two slightly projecting gabled wings, with the western bay being slightly lower than the other.
On the south elevation, there are four attic dormers that have gable coping and moulded kneelers. The attic storey includes six windows in total, which are 2-light casement windows; the easternmost window features a large stone mullion. The ground floor has five 3-light casement windows, each with a high-level transom.
There are three doorways; the westernmost doorway, located in the lower bay, has an open-sided gabled porch with carved bargeboards. The other two doorways are situated in the central two bays at the angles with the projecting wings. Both of these doorways now contain French windows and have pedimented doorhoods supported by two slender timber piers.
Local climate
Chantry 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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