The Chantry Including Coach House, Stables And Cartshed Range To North

THE CHANTRY INCLUDING COACH HOUSE, STABLES AND CARTSHED RANGE TO NORTH, SLAPTON

House. Early 19th-century remodelling of an earlier house, possibly incorporating some remains of the medieval collegiate chantry (Tower of Collegiate Chantry of St Mary). Rendered stone with exposed slate rubble stable range at rear. Slate hipped roof with lead rolls to ridge and hips; gable ended rear wing. Axial and side stacks with rendered shafts.

The house has a double-depth plan with two principal front rooms (the larger to the right) and an entrance hall to the left of centre, now part of the left-hand room. The entrance hall leads to a large stairwell at the centre with service rooms to the right and a large room (library) to the left, behind which is a long service wing with a passageway to the road underneath and coach house, stables and cartshed beyond at rear. The house is principally a remodelling of an earlier (possibly 18th-century) house, although medieval fabric from the collegiate chantry might be incorporated. The early 19th-century remodelling involved the addition of the front rooms and the coach house, stables and cartshed at the back. The stables and coach house feature a Gothick elevation and tower facing the medieval chantry ruins, with a Regency balcony on the left-hand side of the house overlooking the church and village.

Three storeys and cellar. Asymmetrical four-window south front. Doorway to left of centre with early 19th-century moulded doorcase and panelled door with tented canopy, flanked by early 19th-century tripartite bow windows with curved sashes complete with glazing bars and modillion cornices. One corridor to the right on ground floor, four windows on first floor and three smaller windows on second floor all have 19th-century 16-pane sashes. The left side also has 19th-century 16-pane sashes and an early 19th-century cast-iron Gothick balcony with canopy. Sash windows at rear, one on ground floor with thick glazing bars. Long stable range attached to service wing including coach house, stables and cartshed, all with lofts above. The elevation facing the chantry ruins features 19th-century two-centre arch windows with intersecting glazing bars and a tall octagonal tower with pointed arch doorway, lancets and corbelled parapet.

The front left-hand room has a Gothick chimneypiece with clustered shafts to pilasters and four-centred arch. The front right-hand room has a late 19th-century marble chimneypiece and flanking elliptically-headed and pilastered china cupboards. Both front rooms have panelled window shutters in the bay windows. At the back is a large open-well, open-string staircase with stick balusters, moulded handrail and chamfered newels with moulded caps. To the rear left is a double-height room (library) with a later segmental vaulted ceiling inserted and circa early 17th-century panelling. Most of the internal joinery, such as the panelled doors, is early 19th-century, but one circa late 17th- or early 18th-century fielded two-panel door with H-L hinges survives on the first floor of the rear left wing. Under the rear left service wing is a deep well. The second floor and parts of the first floor and rear wing were not inspected. The three-bay stable has partitions to stalls with chamfered posts and finials.