Chesnut House

Chestnut House is a house dating to the late 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th and 20th centuries. The house is timber framed and has been plastered, with a roof largely covered in handmade red clay tiles, partially with corrugated red clay tiles dating to the 19th century. Originally, it comprised three bays facing south, with an axial chimney stack at the right end and a 19th-century external stack at the left end. A single-bay extension was added to the right in the 17th century, with its own axial chimney stack. Lean-to extensions behind each end create catslide roofs, and a small flat-roofed extension sits between them. The house has two storeys and attics. A late 18th-century door with an open pediment sits centrally, alongside six-panelled doors. There are six casement windows from the 20th century with rectangular leaded panes, and five more on the first floor. The roof features pierced and scalloped ridge tiles from the 19th century.

Inside, the house retains jowled posts, arched bracing trenched inside heavy studs, step stops on all original posts, and an axial beam in the west bay. A transverse beam in the middle bay has step stops with chevron carving. An original window with two lights and ovolo mouldings survives within the northwest extension. An axial beam with lamb's tongue stops is present in the east extension. The roof is a clasped purlin construction. The west attic gable features a 17th-century window with two diamond-leaded lights, including some early glass. The main hearth has a cast iron fireback bearing the arms of Charles II, dated 1664.