Chapel House Farmhouse

Chapel House Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely consists of two builds from the early 17th century or earlier, with later additions and alterations. It has a stone base and coursed sandstone rubble walls with quoins, which probably re-clad the original timber-framing. The roof is slate, featuring one chimney on the ridge and another at the rear left corner of the wing.

The structure is a two-bay range with a central baffle-entry and a projecting two-bay crosswing on the left, with the roof ridges not joined. It stands two storeys tall. The front wall of the first bay has been brought forward to align with the gable of the wing, creating a long porch in the re-entrant. This porch includes a doorway to the right with a cambered lintel that is undercut as a shallow Tudor arch, and a square window with a hoodmould. The second bay has one altered window on each floor, with the upper window also featuring a hoodmould. The gable of the wing has quoins at both corners, one window on each floor (the upper being very small), and a 45-degree pitched roof, with a fragment of moulded coping at the rear. Most of the formerly mullioned windows in the other walls have been altered, but a small firewindow remains at the junction of the first and second bays. The rear of the building has two doors, one of which is accompanied by a modern square porch.

Inside, there is substantial timber-framing, particularly an almost intact original outer wall in the first bay, which includes posts, rails, braces to the wallplate (approximately half a metre below the present roof), and some studs with secondary rails, with wattle and daub infill remaining in some panels. A similar timber-framed partition wall in the wing appears to be earlier and has similarly infilled panels, with the lower section exposing wattle. The original baffle-entry is now blocked, but an inglenook remains, featuring a moulded heckpost and a triangular peephole in a boarded panel, along with a small-chamfered bressummer that is undercut at the rear end. This bressummer supports chamfered beams set on edge. The roof of the crosswing has a truss with a collar, with purlins resting on the backs of the principals.