Chantry House The Chantry

Chantry House and The Chantry are a country house, originally in two occupations, dating to the late 18th century and early to mid-19th century. The house is constructed of scribed rendered rubble, with the ground floor front exposed, and has a slate roof. The main block features a central hall with a square front, rebuilt or added to an earlier rear wing, which served as a service block but is now a separate dwelling.

The front block is three stories high with three windows. The ground floor has French doors with transom lights on either side, framing a panelled door with Greek key ornament and a transom light. The first floor has tall 12-pane sashes in moulded architraves with shoulders and flared feet, sitting on brackets, flanking a large central, flat-roofed oriel with 4:16:4-pane sashes to a moulded cornice. The top floor has three segmental-headed 6-pane sashes in moulded architraves, also with cills on brackets. A continuous glazed verandah, supported by four fluted cast iron columns, runs along the front, with glazed-in sections at each end; the glazing returns to the right side as a conservatory. Alternating quoins and a modillion cornice are present, and the roof is hipped, with two rendered stacks positioned centrally but offset from the ridge on each side.

The left return is plain, while the right return at ground floor has plate glass canted bays flanking a central pair of doors with Greek key ornament. The first floor has two widely spaced 12-pane sashes, and the second floor has 6-pane segmental-headed sashes, all without architraves. The glazed conservatory extends across this front. The rear of the main house has two 12-pane sashes and a 2-light glazing bar casement.

The separate rear unit, known as The Chantry, is two stories high and possesses a facade towards the Music Room (listed separately) with four 12-pane sashes at first floor. It is connected to the Music Room by a glazed corridor. The opposite side has three 12-pane sashes at ground floor and a pair of doors sheltered by a slate hood; at first floor, there are two blank recesses and a 12-pane sash. A 20th-century door provides access to the back of this section, linked to former farm outbuildings.

The Chantry features box eaves to a moulded cornice, a hipped roof, and a delicate square open bell turret with a wind vane. The interior of Chantry House includes a wide entrance hall with an open staircase featuring a cut string with decorative tread ends, octagonal balusters, a mahogany handrail, a glazed tile floor, a cornice with egg and dart, and 6-panel 19th-century doors. A room to the right has a palmette frieze with vine leaves, a heavy consoled Victorian fireplace, and two niche cupboards. A wide elliptical arch leads to pilasters between an ante-room and the staircase, with a smaller round arch at the head of the stair leading to the back rooms. Windows have panelled shutters. The Chantry itself, which was not fully inspected, contains a large kitchen with a slate slab floor. A 20th-century canopy connects the back of The Chantry to the former farm outbuildings. The house is in excellent condition. A group of outbuildings, dated to C. Rogers, 1840, and possibly representing the time of the major modifications to the house exterior, are located nearby, but are not listed.