Great Chilton Farmhouse

A farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, with alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. The exterior is pebble-dashed render with painted ashlar dressings, a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, and painted rendered chimneys. The building has an L-shaped layout, comprising a three-storey, three-bay main block and a two-storey, two-bay addition to the right. The main block features a central half-glazed panelled door, large 19th-century sash windows in the outer bays on the first two floors, and smaller four-pane fixed lights on the top floor with projecting stone sills. The roof has moulded kneelers supporting raised copings that blend into massive stepped chimneys with ashlar cornices. The extension has a glazed door to the right and late 19th-century sash windows, along with a conservatory with a pent roof. The right gable has a coping, and chimneystacks are present at the centre and right end of the ridge. The left return of the main block displays an external stack. The rear elevation includes a two-storey wing attached to the second bay of the main house, pent one-storey extensions to the outer bays, and a two-storey extension to the first bay of the 19th-century addition.

The interior contains a large stone Tudor-arched fireplace surround on the ground floor of the first bay, with ogee-stopped chamfered jambs. A smaller fireplace surround of the same period, originally from the first floor of the first bay, has been moved to the ground floor’s third bay. A large panelled, corniced 17th-century stone fireplace surround, imported from Gloucestershire, is located in the left bay of the 19th-century addition. A 19th-century open-well staircase in the rear wing features a narrow ramped handrail on stick balusters. According to the owner, a stone-mullioned window was discovered beneath plaster in the rear wing. The altered roof has collared trusses with overlapping purlins and waney rafters.