Chantry House the Chantry

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AVETON GIFFORD - SX 74 NW 5/5 Chantry House and The Chantry (previously 26.1.67 listed as Chantry with outbuildings) GV II Country house in grounds, in two occupations. Late C18 and early to mid C19. Scribed rendered rubble, exposed to ground floor front, slate roof. A central hall square front block rebuilt or added to the earlier back wing, which was the service block but now (1988) is a separate dwelling. Front block is in 3 storeys, 3 windows; ground floor has French doors with transom lights flanking, panelled door in reveals with Greek key ornament and with transome light. First floor has tall 12-pane sashes in moulded architrave with shoulders and flared feet, and cill on brackets, flanking large central flat-roofed oriel with 4:16:4-pane sashes to moulded cornice. Top floor has 3 segmental-headed 6-pane sashes in moulded architraves and with cills on brackets. Continuous glazed verandah on 4 fluted cast iron columns, and with glazed-in section at each end; glazing returns to right side as conservatory. Alternating quoins, modillion cornice, hipped roof, 2 rendered stacks centred but off ridge each side. Left return is plain, right return at ground floor has plate glass canted bays flan- king central pair of doors with Greek key ornament; first floor 2 wide spaced 12-pane and second floor 6-pane segmental-headed sashes, all without archi- traves. The glazed conservatory continuous across this front. Back has two 12-pane sashes and a 2-light glazing bar casement. The back unit, The Chantry, is in 2 storeys; face towards Music Room (q.v.) has four 12-pane sashes at first floor, and is connected to the Music Room with a glazed corridor. Far side has at ground floor three 12-pane sashes and a pair of doors to a slate hood; at first floor has two blank recesses and a 12-pane sash. Back, linked to out- buildings, contains C20 main door to this section. Box eaves to a moulded cornice, hipped roof with delicate square open bell turret to wind-vane. Interior: Chantry House has wide entrance hall with open stair to cut string with decorative tread ends, octagonal balusters, mahogany handrail, glazed tile floor, cornice with egg and dart, 6-panel C19 doors. Room to right has palmette frieze with vine leaves, heavy consoled Victorian fireplace, 2 niche cupboards. Wide elliptical arch to pilasters between ante-room and stair, and smaller round arch at head of stair to back rooms. Windows with panelled shutters. The Chantry not fully inspected, has large kitchen with slate slab floor. A C20 canopy connects the back to the former farm outbuildings. A good house in excellent condition. A large group of outbuildings (not of special interest) is dated to C Rogers, 1840, and possibly represents the time of the major modifica- tions to the house exterior.

Listing NGR: SX7021649098

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