Music Room at the Chantry is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Cultural. 4 related planning applications.

Music Room at the Chantry

WRENN ID
swift-pinnacle-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Cultural
Address
Music Room at the Chantry, Aveton Gifford, TQ7 4EH
OS grid reference
SX 702 491
Coordinates
50.32757, -3.82449
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Music Room at The Chantry is a detached structure built around 1840. It features rendered and scribed fronts, with rubble on the north and east sides, and has a slate roof. The room is lofty and sits over cellars, with a hipped roof and a segmental east end. There is a brick stack at the eaves in the middle of the north front. The south front showcases four arched windows with margin-bar sashes set in architraves that have keystones, below shallow blank recesses at the eaves. A plain string runs at the level where the arches spring, and bold alternating quoins are present, similar to those on The Chantry House. The east end is plain, while the north front has a door accessed by two slate steps. The west front connects to The Chantry through a door from a glazed link.

Inside, the main room features a segmental apse supported by pilasters and brackets. The ceiling is richly plastered and coved, with a central rose. The windows have colored glass along the margins, and there is a raised platform in the apse. A steep winder stair leads down to the cellars, which have slate slab floors and various compartments. A wide straight stair connects to the kitchen in The Chantry, and there is an iron spiral staircase leading to the apse. This music room is an important part of the grouping with the larger house.

Local climate

Music Room at the Chantry receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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