The Chantry is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. A Georgian Country house.
The Chantry
- WRENN ID
- gentle-stronghold-summer
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Country house
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Chantry, Whatley
- OS grid reference
- ST 719 469
- Coordinates
- 51.22118, -2.40242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chantry is a country house built around 1826 by John Pinch for James Fussell. It is constructed from Bath stone ashlar and features a hipped slate roof behind a cornice and parapet, with ashlar stacks. The house has a rectangular, plain Classical facade with three bays; the central bay is three storeys tall, while the outer wings are two storeys. The windows are sash with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows in the outer bays are set in shallow semi-circular headed recesses with impost bands. Above these openings, there are blank sections with false glazing bars and a sill band.
The central entrance has a broad semi-circular headed opening with double six-panelled doors, the upper two panels being glazed, flanked by sidelights and a fanlight, all within a fluted surround. A semi-circular Roman Doric portico supported by two pairs of columns and pilasters is present, along with low ornamental wrought iron railings around the top. To the right side, there is a one-storey hipped roofed wing with a single bay and a door opening featuring a four-panelled door. The ground falls away to the rear, which has a basement and three bays, with a full height semi-circular bow in the centre bay. The window openings at the rear have additional low decorative railings on their sills.
Inside, the house retains original doors, fireplaces, decorative plasterwork, and a staircase.
Local climate
The Chantry receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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