Chestnuts

Chestnuts is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It has a timber frame that is partly plastered and roughcast rendered, with sections clad in red and blue bricks arranged in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles. The house has two bays facing north, featuring an axial stack at the right end, which is truncated at the first floor level, and a stack at the left end that was originally external but is now enclosed. An 18th-century range forms a crosswing at the left end, extending forwards; the front two bays of this range now make up Anchor Cottage, while the southern bay is incorporated into Chestnuts. There is a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension at the rear. The house is one storey high with attics. In the right bay, there is a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and a large wood-burning hearth that is blocked. In the left bay of the original building, which is now the middle bay, there is a chamfered axial beam with step stops (likely re-used) and plain joists of vertical section, along with a large wood-burning hearth that has been reduced for a 20th-century grate.