Chapter Manor

Chapter Manor is a large detached house, formerly known as South Cerney House. It dates partly from the early to mid-18th century and was enlarged to the east around 1914. The building is constructed of coursed and dressed rubble stone, topped with a hipped stone slate roof featuring projecting eaves. It has a large central brick ridge stack on the west side and stone stacks with moulded cornices elsewhere. The house is arranged in a square shape around a square light well and has two storeys plus an attic.

The oldest part of the house, located to the west, has eight bays, three of which are blind. The remaining bays feature 12-pane sash windows with nearly flush sash boxes, a continuous plat band above, and a keystone for each bay. The ground floor has seven bays, five of which have similar windows. There is a half-glazed door just left of centre, flanked by stone pilasters and topped with a wide gabled porch hood supported by scroll brackets. The roof includes four gabled dormers with paired casements. The rest of the house features 20th-century multi-pane casements or wood mullions and transoms.

On the north side, there is a large projecting square porch with a cornice and parapet, featuring double four-panel doors and a wide flat stone hood on console brackets. The interior has been largely modernised, but one ground floor room to the west retains very fine 18th-century decorative plasterwork and niches. The site is reputed to have been a settlement since the early medieval period, associated with the Augustinian Order in Bristol.