Chantry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1966. House. 1 related planning application.

Chantry Cottage

WRENN ID
ancient-fireplace-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 January 1966
Type
House
Address
Chantry Cottage, Church Street, Mere, BA12 6DS
OS grid reference
ST 811 321
Coordinates
51.08879, -2.2711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chantry Cottage is a former service range that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 16th, 17th, and 20th centuries. The building features a mix of coursed rubble and squared and coursed rubble, with a tile roof on the eastern side and a slate roof on the western side. It is a long, low structure with coped verges and a tall, wide throughway at the north end.

The west face, which faces the road, has a wide opening with 16th-century moulded stone jambs and a wooden lintel, leading to a pair of 20th-century plank doors. To the right of this opening is mainly plain walling, which includes a tall square external eaves stack and two lights at the south end. The east front, which overlooks the garden of The Chantry, is two storeys high and features four windows arranged in a 2+2 pattern. There is a single storey section to the left with two 2-light casements, followed by a slightly recessed two-storey section with two 2-light windows on each level. This section culminates in a large basket-arch opening with a pair of wide half-glazed doors. At the north end, beyond the throughway, is the stable block, which has a 4-centred chamfered doorway.

Local climate

Chantry Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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