Chapel Farmhouse

Chapel Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century, which was remodeled and extended in the late 19th century. It is constructed of large tax bricks in garden wall bond, with some vitrified bricks. The roof is slate with gabled ends and projecting brick eaves courses. The house features tax brick axial and gable end stacks, with the axial stack heightened and fitted with clay tile pots.

The original house has a three-room plan, with the large left-hand room serving as the kitchen and the smaller center room heated by back-to-back fireplaces in the axial stack. The smaller right-hand room is heated from a gable end stack. In the late 19th century, an unheated one-room plan extension was added to the left (north) end, along with a wing at the back and two other rear wings and outshuts, likely when the house was divided into two cottages.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has a four-window west front, with the left bay being a late 19th-century addition. It features 20th-century two-light casements without glazing bars and 20th-century half-glazed doors to the left and right of the center. At the rear, there is a central one-storey gable-ended wing, with the left-hand wing heightened with a flat roof and a narrow two-storey wing on the right, along with outshuts in between.

Inside, the left-hand room of the original house has chamfered axial beams in the center, with the beams featuring run-out stops and a 20th-century chimneypiece. The smaller right-hand room lacks stops and has a 19th-century chimneypiece. The interior includes late 19th-century joinery throughout, including plank doors and two winder staircases. The roof has large purlins and later common rafters.

Tax bricks were large bricks made to avoid the brick tax of 1784, which was repealed in 1850. To combat this, double tax was then levied on bricks over 150 cubic inches. The bricks used in this farmhouse measure 9x5x4.5 inches, indicating they are likely from the 18th century. There was a large brickworks nearby to the west.