Chantry House

Chantry House is an 18th-century house that stands two storeys high with an attic. The front of the house features five windows and two dormers. It is constructed with grey headers on a red brick base, complemented by brick dressings, quoins, and panels between the ground and first-floor windows. The building has a dentilled cornice and a parapet. The windows are designed with cambered head linings and retain their original glazing bars. The main entrance is accessed by five steps and includes pilasters, a pediment, a rectangular fanlight, and a door with six fielded panels.

This house has a historical tablet noting that the poet William Butler Yeats, who lived from 1859 to 1939, wrote many of his later poems here. The artist Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895 and who passed away in 1978, also resided in this house with her partner, journalist Edith Shackleton Heald, from 1944 until Gluck's death. Gluck adopted the name ‘Gluck’ in 1918 and was known for dressing in traditionally masculine clothing, reflecting themes of gender subversion and non-conformity in her art. Edith Shackleton Heald was a pioneering journalist, recognized as the first female reporter in the House of Lords.