The Chantry

The Chantry is a building that was originally part of a house, converted into two or three cottages, and is now a house again. It dates back to the early 16th century, with improvements made in the 17th century. The building was divided in the 19th century and then united in the mid-20th century. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 19th-century brick, and has a thatched roof made of wheat reed.

The main block, which faces south, consists of a hall and an inner room from the 16th-century three-room-and-through-passage house, with a 17th-century rear block positioned at right angles behind the inner room. There is a rear lateral stack projecting from the hall, a first-floor gable end stack at the right end, and a gable end stack for the rear block. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window front with 19th-century three-light casement windows featuring diamond-pane leaded lights, two of which were replaced in 1984. A plank door is located at the left end, accompanied by a flat-arch headed window, and there is a tiled 19th-century hood supported by shaped brackets and a valance. The rear block has a balanced two-window front with late 19th-century and 20th-century casements, a central door, and a porch similar to the one at the front. Additionally, there is a door in the gable end of the main block with a Victorian post box to the left.

Inside, the early 16th-century two-bay roof over the main block is smoke blackened, reflecting its original use, and was divided by low partitions, heated by an open hearth fire. The features below are from the 17th century; the hall crossbeam is chamfered with scroll stops, and the axial beam in the inner room is chamfered with straight cut stops. There is a winder stair leading from the inner room to the chamber above, which has a volcanic ashlar fireplace with an ovolo-moulded oak lintel featuring scroll stops. The late 16th to early 17th-century rear block may have originally been a separate building, as the cob wall between the blocks is said to have been blind. This block has a two-bay roof on a side-pegged jointed cruck roof truss, a chamfered cross beam with step stops, a large rubble fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel, and a stone side oven.