Description

WARMINSTER HIGH STREET 1. 5411 (North Side) No 34 (The Chantry) [Formerly listed as No 24 (The Chantry)] ST 8745 SW 6/25 28.4.52.

II* GV

2. Circa 1750-60. Possibly by a Longleat estate surveyor/architect. 3 storeys. Recently cleaned Bath stone. Projecting plinth with moulded coping, plain bands at each floor. Small rusticated quoins. Moulded cornice. Plain parapet with moulded coping and old tile roof. Glazing bar sash windows with stone architrave surrounds. Three 3 light windows on 1st floor, with centre light 4 panes high and side lights 3 panes high, (rectangular variation of a venetian window). 2 similar windows under, on ground floor flanking 6 panel central door in Doric surround, of pilasters, triglyph frieze, moulded and bracketed cornice with pediment and with Palladian window over on mezzanine level, with Ionic pilasters framing lights and carrying bolection frieze and moulded and bracketted cornices. Architrave round arch of central light has interlacing "Gothic" glazing pattern. The right hand ground floor window is out of alignment with windows over to allow for secondary entrance in right hand corner now blocked. Early C19 rear extension to north-east with 2 large windows per floor. Interior: fine contemporary oak staircase with 1st floor and landing galleries, ramped sills and panelled dados, 2 balusters per tread. Oak (?) interior joinery to central Ionic Palladian window. Dentil cornice to main hall which has diamond pattern flagged floor. This building is not unlike Byne House (church Street) and Dilton Vale Farmhouse (Westbury).

Listing NGR: ST8731945154

External Links

• Wikidata Q17540142

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)