Chantry House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.

Chantry House

WRENN ID
lunar-joist-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 1952
Type
House
Address
Chantry House, 2 Burial Lane, Llantwit Major, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, CF61 1SD
OS grid reference
SS 966 686
Coordinates
51.40751, -3.48787
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Chantry House is a two-storey, single-depth house built with stone walls that have pebbledash cladding. The roof is mainly covered with asbestos slate, with slate tiles at the south-west end of the garden pitch; it was formerly thatched. There is a rebuilt stack on the south-west gable.

The north-west elevation facing the road features a lateral stack with a rebuilt top for the north-east room. To the right, there is a single-light window above and a single-light ground floor window in the reveals of the south-west room, with a taller first-floor window above it. The north-east gable end has a battered base and includes a 20th-century two-light window with 3 + 3 panes on the ground floor and a smaller window above.

The south-east elevation facing the garden is divided into two sections, with the left part set forward. This section has a 20th-century lean-to covering the ground floor and a modern casement window above. To the right, there is a doorway and a modern casement window with a blocked window above. This section was likely heightened in the 19th century. The south-east or garden elevation is a prominent feature in views of the village from the lanes.

The interior was not accessible during the resurvey, but previous descriptions suggest that several features may still be present. These include a north-east ground floor room with stopped and chamfered beams and scratch joists, extending south-west to an internal stone partition wall. In the reveals of the north-east ground floor window, there are two small plaster panels depicting a woman in late 16th to early 17th-century costume in the north-west reveal and a jester in the south-east reveal. Additionally, there is an arched, stopped and chamfered fireplace in the north-west wall, featuring a plaster fleur-de-lys and a moulded string above. There was also a former fireplace stair leading to the south-west room in the north-west angle. These features have been confirmed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Local climate

Chantry House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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