The Chantry
THE CHANTRY, 2, THE BOROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252008
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Chantry
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHANTRY, 2, THE BOROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252008
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Chantry
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHANTRY, 2, THE BOROUGH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHANTRY, 2, THE BOROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Montacute
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4982216966
Details
ST4916 MONTACUTE CP THE BOR0UGH (East side)
8/107 No. 2
(The Chantry)
(formerly listed as The Post
Office)
GV II
Semi-detached house. Probably C17, but incorporating C16 work. Ham stone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh
slate roof with stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 2 bay west
elevation. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, 3-light below and 2-light above, all flat-headed
lights except to upper bay 1 which has 4-centre arched lights; substantial chimney stick to south-west corner. South
gable has a 2-storey angled bay window of 1+3+1 hollow-chamfer mullioned lights in chamfered recesses, the lower with
flat heads and the upper 4-centre arched with incised spandrils under stepped hipped stone roof; there are 2 string
moulds over the lower window, and then a carved panel for full width of bay featuring 2 figures carrying a shield
bearing the letters R.S (for the last prior of Montacute 1532-39) and sways: to right a triangular-arched doorway
without label, plain boarded door. Sundry extensions to east. Interior not seen. (VCR Vol III,1974).
Listing NGR: ST4982216966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434927
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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