Chantry Dene

House. Designed in 1907 and erected in 1908 by architects Clemence and Moon in the Arts and Crafts style. The client was a local timber merchant, Arthur I Moon. The building is constructed mainly of purple brick in stretcher bond with red brick dressings and some pebbledash, particularly to the gables. It features a wooden Georgian style cornice and a tiled roof with tall brick chimneystacks. The plan is butterfly-shaped, aligned north to south with the wider part to the south, and includes a north-eastern spur containing the service wing. The house has two storeys, attics, and a basement, with three or four windows to the main part. Fenestration is irregular to the front but regular to the rear, predominantly mullioned or mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights.

The north or entrance front has a central curved belvedere to the roof with three leaded lights, surmounted by an octagonal wooden cupola with copper dome and metal weathervane. The central first floor window features a curved leaded light. The ground floor has a semi-circular domed porch supported on two Tuscan columns and two piers, behind which is a good quality oak panelled half-glazed door with original ironmongery. On either side are partly inward-facing pebbledashed gables with Venetian windows and casement windows below—two to the left and one to the right, with the right-hand example being a late twentieth-century window within an original surround. To the left is the mainly single-storey service wing.

The west elevation has a two-storey canted bay window with pebbledash between the floors. The south or garden front features a recessed central bay with a dormer with curved gable. Below is a five-light square bay with mullions and transoms and leaded lights. The ground floor has four columns to a loggia with balustrading above, which was glazed-in to create a sun lounge in the late twentieth century. The end bays have outwardly-facing pebbledashed gables with oval windows to the attics and a triple dormer to the gable returns. Below are two-storey five-light canted bays with mullioned and transomed windows and leaded lights to the upper parts only. To the right, set back, is a further bay with a curved four-light window to the first floor and a four-light mullioned and transomed casement to the ground floor. To the extreme right is a single-storey service wing with three windows.

The interior contains an oak staircase with gallery featuring turned balusters and newel posts carved with military arms and heraldic devices. The two principal south-facing reception rooms and the former study, now kitchen, contain round-headed apse-like cupboards. The rooms have deep skirting boards and simple coved ceilings. A second-floor bedroom retains an original fireplace, and a larder with slate shelves is also reported in earlier sales particulars.

In 1910, Roger Eliot Fry, the art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group, was a tenant of Chantry Dene while building his own house, Durbins, in Chantry View Road.

The architect Thomas Riley Clemence (1863–1947) practised mainly in the Guildford area with various partners and received many commissions for large houses and public houses for Friary Holroyd and Healy's breweries. His partner at the time, Moon, is considered to be Mr H Moon, who constructed the almshouses in Hambledon in 1907.