Description

AVETON GIFFORD -
SX 74 NW
5/6 Music Room at The Chantry
(previously listed as
26.1.67 Chantry with outbuil-
dings)
Gl7 II
Music room. c.1840. Rendered and scribed two fronts, rubble to north and east
fronts, slate roof. A detached lofty room over cellars, hipped roof, segmental
east end; brick stack to eaves middle of north front. South front has 4 arched
windows with margin-bar sashes in architraves with keystones, below shallow
blank recesses at eaves; plain string at arch springing level, bold alternating
quoins as to Chantry House (q.v.). Plain east end, north front has door on 2
slate steps; west front has door from connecting glazed link to The Chantry
(q.v.). Interior: A main room with segmental apse via pilasters and brackets.
Rich plastered ceiling, coved, with centre rose. Windows have coloured glass to
margins. Raised platform in apse. A steep winder stair leads to cellars with
slate slab floors, in various compartments. A wide straight stair leads to the
kitchen in The Chantry and there is an iron spiral to the apse. An important
element grouped with the large house.

Listing NGR: SX7023349109

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401944

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  For the Record
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback