The Chestnuts

The Chestnuts is a house that underwent a comprehensive remodelling around 1830, incorporating parts of an earlier building, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof, designed in an L-shape with a north wing. The house has two storeys and gable-lit attics, with a dentilled eaves cornice.

The windows are primarily late 19th-century casements, with two located directly below the eaves and one on the ground floor featuring a segmental head on the east range. The north range has a 20th-century casement replacing a segmental-headed window on the first floor, and another segmental-headed casement to the right on the ground floor.

Entrances are through a segmental-headed doorway with a six-panel door in the north wing and a four-panel door with a rectangular overlight on the east range, both sheltered by a lean-to wooden verandah at the angle between the ranges. The large external end stack on the north gable end has flanking crenellated projections with round-headed arches, while there is an integral end stack on the east range.

The west front of the north range features two deeply recessed glazing bar sashes on the first floor and an early 20th-century bay window to the lower right, with 20th-century casements to the left and centre, along with traces of a blocked doorway in the centre.

Inside, the close-studded timber framed walls are visible in the centre of the north range and on the stairs to the attic, which is part of the original building's east external wall. The main ground-floor rooms have chamfered ceiling beams and two large fireplaces with segmental wooden lintels. An oak staircase with plain 19th-century balusters leads to the upper floors, which feature six-panel doors on the ground and first floors, and plank and muntin doors with pointed strap hinges in the attic.