Listed Building record MDO13284 - Chettle House, Chettle

Chettle House, has two principal storeys, with basements and attics, and with a three storeyed pavilion. The walls are generally of finely coursed red brickwork with ashlar dressings of Chilmark Stone and roof-coverings of lead and slate. Built for George Chafin (1713-1747) the architect being Thomas Archer. The house was remodelled in circa 1845 for Edward Castleman and restored in 1912. It was converted into flats following the property being inherited in 1946 but was subsequently converted back into a single property following the sale of the property in 2015.

(ST 95141318) Chettle House (NAT). <1> CHETTLE HOUSE, of two principal storeys with basement and attics, and with a three-storyed central pavilion, has walls generally of finely coursed red brickwork with ashlar dressings, and roof-coverings of lead and of slate The house was built c. 1710 for George Chafin, M.P. 1713-1747, the architect in all probability being Thomas Archer. After the death in 1818 of George Chafin's son, the Rev. William Chafin, the house stood empty for many years. It suffered severely while vacant and in restoring it, c.1845, the new owner Edward Castleman, remodelled the lower main floor and removed the N. and S. bays in the upper storey; it is said that he also removed a cupola which formerly crowned the central pavilion. J. Pouncy's view of the house as it was c.1856(a) shows the rounded bays rising only one storey above the basement, the curved walls then being capped with parapets and urns. In 1912 the rounded upper storeys were reinstated; they were furnished with balustraded parapets in imitation of the parapets of the central part of the building, features which they cannot have had in the original design since the remains of the original parapets are still seen above the roofs, returning on the line of the outside pilasters of the main fronts. <2> Chettle House Country House, now divided into flats. Grade I. <4> Additional reference. <3>

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