Chapel House And Former Dairy (Now The Cottage)

Chapel House and the former dairy, now known as The Cottage, is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations, and an attached cottage that was a dairy built in the late 19th century. The building features brown brick walls in an irregular bond and grey slate roofs with two parallel ridges and sandstone-coped gables that have kneelers. The farmhouse is 2½ storeys high with a square shape and three windows across the front. It has a plain band at the first floor and a double band at the second. There are two rectangular brick chimneys, and the front windows have gauged brick heads while camber arches are present elsewhere. The late 19th-century hard moulded brick cills have replaced earlier windows with small-pane iron casements, added around 1860 for the 2nd Marquis of Westminster. A modern door and glazing are set within a recessed porch that has a clay tile surround. At the right end, there is an iron verandah, likely from the late 19th century, supported by four Doric columns, though the roof has been replaced with corrugated plastic. The north wing, which was the former dairy, is two storeys tall with four windows, constructed of brown brick featuring blue diapering and red brick camber heads above the windows. The upper storey is slightly corbelled and has a blue tile roof. Inside the farmhouse, there is an oak newel dogleg stair with capped square newels, barley sugar turned balusters with two per step, and a heavy, slightly moulded rail.