 As these additions are in keeping with the original style and materials, they appear as one consistent building and the new areas are not obvious.David Verey and Alan Brooks, in their first volume of the Pevsner Architectural Guide to the county, describe Chavenage as "the ideal 16th-century Cotswold stone manor house".The interior has a former open great hall, but this has now had a ceiling installed, with an altered minstrels' gallery over a screen.