The Chantry Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Hotel.
The Chantry Hotel
- WRENN ID
- woven-threshold-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Chantry Hotel, 8, Sparhawk Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 856 638
- Coordinates
- 52.24185, 0.7182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chantry Hotel is a house that has been converted into a hotel, originally built in the 18th century and constructed in several phases. The front is cement-rendered, while the sides are made of red brick, and the rear features painted brick with a timber-framed and rendered top storey. The building has a slate roof with a modillion eaves soffit.
It stands three storeys high with cellars and has a four-window range. The second storey has 12-pane sash windows, the first storey has 16-pane sash windows, and the ground storey features windows with marginal glazing bars, all set in flush cased frames. The entrance door consists of six raised fielded panels and is framed by a wood doorcase with panelled pilasters and a triangular pediment.
To the north, there is an attached elliptical-arched carriageway made of red brick, supported by rusticated piers. At the rear, a late 20th-century extension has replaced a 19th-century boundary wall on the south side. A stone tablet that was part of the original wall has been re-set on the new building, which reads: "THIS WALL IS THE ENTIRE PROPERTY OF THOS DE CARLE 11 SEPT 1830." The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Chantry Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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