Chantry House

Chantry House, originally known as Chantry Cottages, is a building that dates back to around 1392 and has been altered in the 19th century. It was originally part of a chantry college and is constructed from flint with red brick dressings, stone quoins, and a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and features a moulded eaves cornice, with four stacks arranged from left to right. The front has a regular arrangement of windows, including four 19th-century tripartite sash windows and a central sash window on the first floor, as well as four tripartite sash windows on the ground floor. Some original openings have been revealed, including a mullioned light to the left on the first floor and single openings with stone surrounds on the ground floor. The central door is made up of six panels and features a rectangular fanlight, moulded surrounds, and a cornice hood, with exposed brick and wood from an earlier door opening visible around it.

On the right return front, the first floor has a 14th-century two-light cusped opening. Inside, much of the 14th-century structure remains, including two vaulted and half-sunk rooms. The roof features five large moulded crown posts and two round flint chimneys. There are moulded stone doorways that originally led from the central hall to the kitchen at either end of the passage. Later additions include a 17th-century moulded brick fireplace, along with panelling, carving, and a staircase of various dates from the 17th to 18th centuries, which were imported from various London buildings in the 1950s. The internal layout is believed to have included vaulted storerooms with a chaplain's room above, an open hall, a pantry, a buttery, and a passage with a scholars' room above, as well as a kitchen open to the roof. The college was founded in 1397 by Robert de Bradegare, with the north aisle of the church being used as its chapel, coinciding with the rebuilding of the entire church at that time.