The Chestnuts

The Chestnuts is a farmhouse with adjoining side ranges, dating to the mid-18th century, with alterations and additions around 1800 and 1870. The building is constructed of red brick with various shades of plain tile roofs. It retains a plinth, first floor band, and dentillated eaves. A rebuilt late 20th-century ridge stack, along with 19th-century rear gable and side wall stacks are present.

The main house is two storeys plus cellars and attics, with a three-window front. The windows are mainly 19th-century plain sashes and casements. The central triple sash window has a cellar opening beneath, flanked to the left by a canted wooden bay window and to the right by a reset 18th-century six-panel door and overlight, which is covered by a later 19th-century rustic porch with a hipped Welsh slate roof. Above the entrance, a central triple sash is flanked by single sashes, and above that, three casements. The sash windows have brick flat arches.

A rear wing, dating to the 18th and early 19th centuries, features dentillated eaves on roofs of differing pitches. The east side has 20th-century joinery in segmental arched openings. The north gable has an early 19th-century triple Yorkshire sash window to the first floor. The west side has mostly late 20th-century joinery, with an early 19th-century glazing bar casement to the second floor.

The left side range has a door and two small windows largely obscured by ivy. The left gable features late 20th-century garage doors. Above these are a casement inserted into an earlier flat-arched opening, and another similar casement above it, both with segmental heads. The rear elevation has an external brick stair leading to a 19th-century door.

The right side range has a 20th-century window to the ground floor. The right gable has a 19th-century canted wooden bay window, with a triple sash above it and a casement above again. The rear elevation of this range is rendered, with a first floor band and an external stack.

The interior features a principal staircase and landing with fine turned balusters, a turned newel, and a moulded handrail. A central ground floor room has a remodelled fireplace flanked by early 19th-century cupboards, a cased spine beam (with run-out stops), and two 18th-century two-panel doors. A left room has an 18th-century fitted cupboard, chair rail, and a half-glazed door, with an elliptical arched recess inserted in the 19th century. The first floor contains plain rooms with several 18th and 19th-century two-panel and six-panel doors. The rear wing includes a blocked early 19th-century service stair. The central attic has an 18th-century two-panel door and an exposed span beam. Attics to the end ranges have earlier 18th-century roof trusses, with the truss at the east end cut down.