The Chestnuts

The Chestnuts is a house located on Southam Street in Kineton, built in the early 18th century with later alterations and 20th-century additions. The building is constructed of brick with buff headers and features ashlar dressings. It has a renewed tile roof, which includes some old tiles, with coped gables and brick end stacks, reflecting a Georgian style.

The house has a central staircase plan, with the gable facing front towards Warwick Street on the left. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window range, with the center section breaking forward under the continuation of the roof. There is a stone plat band over the ground floor and top stone cornices flanking the center. The entrance features an architrave with a key block above a half-glazed door. The windows have sills and rusticated wedge lintels with key blocks over two-light small-paned casements.

To the right, there is a 20th-century extension that includes front and return oriels, while the rear incorporates a 19th-century single-storey wing with a small-paned window and casement flanking the entrance, along with a blocked end entrance. The left return has a brick plat band and a blind Venetian-type opening on the first floor, as well as a small attic window. The rear of the house has a large 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed addition.

The Chestnuts makes an important contribution to the churchyard of the Church of St Peter on Warwick Road.