Chestnut Cottage

Chestnut Cottage is a house, likely dating from the early 17th century, with significant alterations around 1700, and further changes in the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. It was originally divided into two dwellings. The house is timber-framed with rendered infill on a rubble base. Parts have been rendered and roughcast, and it is topped with slate roofs. The building comprises one plus two framed bays aligned east/west. An external rubble chimney featuring tiled offsets stands at the east end, while a 19th-century brick chimney with a rebuilt stack is located at the west end.

The cottage is single-storey with an attic, accessed by a dormer. The single-bay section has 2½ timber panels from sill to wall-plate, exhibiting a collar and tie-beam truss with exposed struts at the west gable end. The two-bay section, likely rebuilt around 1700, features scantling timber construction and three panels from sill to wall-plate. No trusses are visible internally. The south front has 19th-century casement windows: the single-bay part has a 3-light and 2-light ground-floor window, while the two-bay part features a 3-light and a single-light ground floor window, a gabled dormer with a 2-light window, and a main entrance with a 19th-century ledged and battened door and a plank weathering. A 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed extension is present at the rear. Inside the east bay, the main ceiling beam is stop-chamfered with run-out stops.