Chantry Farmhouse

Chantry Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century and early to mid-17th century, built in two phases. It is timber framed and has a roughcast-rendered exterior. The roof is pantiled, featuring glazed black tiles at the front. The building has two storeys and an attic, originally designed as a three-cell house that was extended to the right by two bays to create a single long range.

The façade includes four windows, primarily 18th and 19th century mullion and transom casements with four lights, each light having a single horizontal glazing bar. On the left side, there is a doorway with a 19th century four-panel door, where the upper panels are glazed, surrounded by a moulded architrave with corner roundels and a bowed frieze. The right-hand doorway features a 19th century six-panel door, also with the upper two panels glazed.

Inside, there are two internal stacks and an external stack at the right gable end. At the time of the survey, the interior was under renovation, revealing much of the structure. A second stack has been added to the lower bay of the hall, likely when the house was extended. In the 19th century, the main stack of the original range was removed to make space for a staircase, and a smaller stack was built to replace it, serving only the parlour. The building features good studding, with reversed braces in the earlier work and straight corner braces in the later section. Some original windows remain, all with ovolo mullions. Most joists are square, but in the service end of the original range, they are set flat. Both roofs have clasped and butt purlins, with the roof over the earlier range being of better quality. The farmhouse is situated on a moated medieval site.