The Chestnuts The Wilderness

The Chestnuts and The Wilderness are a late 18th-century house, later divided into two separate residences. The exterior is characterised by pebbledash rendering and a Welsh slate roof, built on an L-shaped plan. The front elevation, facing the street, is The Wilderness, with three storeys and a single window, alongside a lower, two-storey, single-window pent extension to the left. To the right return, The Wilderness has two windows, while The Chestnuts has three. The Wilderness features a circa 1930 part-glazed door with a semicircular overlight, a mullioned two-light window in the pent extension, and a further window without glazing bars above the door. Wide windows are present on each floor; the ground floor has a two-light casement with a low sill, the first floor a wide sash, and the third floor a two-light casement breaking the eaves under a shallow dormer with wedge sides. The steeply pitched roof has a moulded kneeler at the front of the right gable coping. The right return of The Wilderness displays tripartite shallow bow windows on the ground and first floors, featuring curved sashes and some early glass; the first floor bow window has an entablature, and the third floor has a casement rising into a gable. The Chestnuts features a renewed door within plain reveals, protected by a gabled hood, and sash windows, including a very shallow bow window to the left of the door. All windows have painted stone sills, and most retain glazing bars. The interior includes window shutters and early 19th-century chimney pieces. At the rear of The Wilderness, fragments of an older building are visible, presenting irregular walls and a low, bowed, truncated beam.