The Chestnuts

The Chestnuts is a house dating from the 15th century, with later alterations and additions. It is timber-framed with brick infill panels and some areas of brick rebuilding. The roof is covered with plain tiles and features a brick ridge stack that has a toothed band and pilaster strips. The building has a two-bay hall-house design with flanking cross-wings. It is mainly one storey and has an attic, with a two-storey wing on the right side. The front is irregular with five windows, featuring 19th-century glazing bar casements. The right-hand cross-wing displays the best-preserved framing, which includes large rectangular panels and curved braces, as well as a collar-and-tie-beam roof truss with clasped purlins. The left-hand cross-wing and the left side of the hall range have smaller gables. There is a central lean-to porch that has a 19th-century ribbed door and a carved stone head on each side. The interior has not been inspected but is recorded as having a cruck truss.