The Chestnuts

The Chestnuts is a Grade II* listed house located on Cock Street in Wymondham. It dates back to the early 16th century and was partly remodeled in the 18th century. The building is timber-framed with rendered and colourwashed brick, topped with red and black-glazed pantiles. It has an L-plan layout and features a facade with two storeys and a dormer attic. The entrance is a painted door located to the left of center, flanked by 18th-century Venetian windows on both sides, which have glazing bars. The first floor jetties out, revealing exposed studs, and there are three 3-light metal casements. A modillion timber eaves cornice adorns the roof, which is bell-based and gabled, featuring two open-pediment dormers lit by 3-light lattice casements.

The internal gable-end stack on the south side has been rebuilt. At the rear, there is a gabled staircase tower with an outshut, a single 3-light 18th-century metal casement window on the floor, and a panelled door to the right. The cross wing, which previously contained the hall, retains a 6-light hall window on the south side, along with two 20th-century casements on the first floor. The gabled roof has a stepped gable to the east, with an internal stack.

Inside, the ground floor front is now one room, featuring a roll-moulded bridging beam and an eastern wall plate, with the west wall plate displaying double wave mouldings. A fireplace has been blocked. The rear range has been converted into a modern kitchen, and the hall window showcases roll-moulded mullions and a chamfered spine beam. The rear extension to the east is open to the roof, revealing jowled principal studs and arched braces to the ties. Above this area is a 20th-century imitation of a clasped purlin roof. The staircase at the rear of the front range is a renewed stick baluster type. The first floor retains studs in the front range with arched braces, while the main roof is of clasped purlin type, albeit fragmentary. The hall range roof is similar but includes arched windbraces.