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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1680 to 1972. Hall-house

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1680 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (West Side) Chantry House (Including entrance gateway and screen wall to courtyard) TQ 5354/1/31 13.4.51 II* 2. Circa 1700. Symmetrical 1.5.1. window facade. 2 storeys. Supporting wings on either side projecting and connected in front by low screen wall enclosing paved courtyard with centre wrought iron gates. Red brick elevation with flat lintel arches over windows of rubbed red headers. Continuous stucco bands above ground floor and second floor windows . Projecting painted wooden moulded cornice with modillions. Random stone plinth. Stucco bands and modillioned cornice continued around front and sides of projecting wings. Painted wooden mullioned and transomed windows with square-paned leaded casements. Small rectangular recessed brick panels above stucco band on first floor. Modillioned cornice slightly projecting over first floor window. Ground floor with centre panelled door with fanlight over in slightly projecting stucco surround with moulded cornice. Fanlight with tracery in raised flat segmental arch. Door and fanlight contained in recessed round-headed arched panel. Centre first floor window with slightly projecting painted brick surround surmounted by moulded stucco broken pediment. No recessed brick panel above centre first floor window. First floor windows with sunblind cases. Centre 5-window facade with hipped tiled roof with 3 flat-roofed tiled dormers containing casements. Supporting wings with corresponding one-window facades of 2 storeys with hipped tiled roofs. Recessed brick panels on ground floor and window above. Side-elevations of supporting wings facing inwards towards courtyard with window on ground floor and recessed brick panel on first floor. Small flush oval brick panels of rubbed red headers set in larger recessed. brick panels on first floor of supporting wings facing= inwards. C18 lead rain water pipe in corners of courtyard to right and left. Low brick screen wall in front of courtyard with stone coping. Centre brick gatepiers with 2 stone bands and projecting moulded stone copings surmounted by ornamental stone balls. Ornamental carved stone brackets to right and left of gate piers. Modern ornamental wrought iron gates. Listing NGR: TQ5312154257 (1)

Description from record TQ 55 SW 15 :
(TQ 53135426) The Chantry (NAT) (2) 1614 HIGH STREET (West Side) Chantry House (Including entrance gateway and screen wall to courtyard) TQ 5354/1/31 13.4.51 II* 2. Circa 1700. Symmetrical 1.5.1. window facade. 2 storeys. Supporting wings on either side projecting and connected in front by low screen wall enclosing paved courtyard with centre wrought iron gates. Red brick elevation with flat lintel arches over windows of rubbed red headers. Continuous stucco bands above ground floor and second floor windows. Projecting painted wooden moulded cornice with modillions. Random stone plinth. Stucco bands and modillioned cornice continued around front and sides of projecting wings. Painted wooden mullioned and transomed windows with square-paned leaded casements. Small rectangular recessed brick panels above stucco band on first floor. Modillioned cornice slightly projecting over first floor window. Ground floor with centre panelled door with fanlight over in slightly projecting stucco surround with moulded cornice. Fanlight with tracery in raised flat segmental arch. Door and fanlight contained in recessed round-headed arched panel. Centre first floor window with slightly projecting painted brick surround surmounted by moulded stucco broken pediment. No recessed brick panel above centre first floor window. First floor windows with sunblind cases. Centre 5-window facade with hipped tiled roof with 3 flat-roofed tiled dormers containing casements. Supporting wings with corresponding one-window facades of 2 storeys with hipped tiled roofs. Recessed brick panels on ground floor and window above. Side elevations of supporting wings facing inwards towards courtyard with window on ground floor and recessed brick panel on first floor. Small flush oval brick panels of rubbed red headers set in larger recessed brick panels on first floor of supporting wings facing inwards. C18 lead rain water pipe in corners of courtyard to right and left. Low brick screen wall in front of court yard with stone coping. Centre brick gatepiers with 2 stone bands and projecting moulded stone copings surmounted by ornamental stone balls. Ornamental carved stone brackets to right and left of gate piers. Modern ornamental wrought iron gates. (3) The Chantry is an idiosyncratic late 17th century red brick house. One brick in the garden walls is dated 1686 which may date the house, or it might be a little earlier. Full architectural description. (4)
In 1994 a survey on the cellars in this area of Sevenoaks was undertaken. Chantry House and Chantry Stables were included. Access to Stables was not gained and the occupier said there was no cellar and neither was access granted to Chantry House, the occupier said a cellar existed with an external entrance. (5)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> DOE (HHR) Dist. of Sevenoaks U.D., Kent. Sept. 1972 24 (OS Card Reference). SKE40448.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 514-5 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38010.

<4> OS 1:2500 1966 (OS Card Reference). SKE48208.

<5> ?, 1994, Sevenoaks Cellar Survey (Unpublished document). SKE17186.

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