Chelmscote Manor

This is a manor house, originally part of a chapel. The core of the building dates to the mid-14th century and was converted into a house during the 16th and 17th centuries. It was restored and extended in the 20th century. The original southern range is constructed of greensand rubble with clunch dressings, and has diagonal corner buttresses, although the one on the northeast corner is missing. The roof is tiled, with the ridge line surviving only in a small section around the brick chimney located between the right-hand bays.

The south front has three bays. It features 20th-century stone mullion windows: a 3-light window in the right bay, and 3-light windows on the ground and first floors of the centre bay. The ground-floor windows have flat hood moulds. Traces of gables, outlined in limestone, are visible between the bays; the gable over the left bay covers a blocked doorway, while that over the right covers a 14th-century arch now sheltered by a 20th-century gabled stone porch with arched double doors. The left side of the building has similar windows and an entrance, as well as basement windows. The right side features a 20th-century 3-light window to the first floor and a shallow projection with a parapet and a 5-light window on the ground floor.

A matching range, dated 1956, was added to the north side and is accessed via a door in the east end. A later 20th-century brick range with leaded casements is attached to the northwest corner.

Interior remains from the original chapel include an entrance arch on the north side, squints in the north and south walls, each with a moulded stone surround and a cusped arch, and a cusped piscina in the south wall near the east end. A doorway and squint are located in the north wall on the first floor. A double-sided fireplace was inserted in the late 16th or 17th century, with a carved brace to a moulded spine beam on the west side. Similar moulded spine beams are present in other ground floor rooms, all ornamented with small blank heraldic shields.