The Chestnuts

The Chestnuts is a farmhouse dated 1619, constructed with a timber frame, colourwashed render, and a slate roof, which was originally thatched. The building has two storeys with an attic and features a baffle-entry design with a screens passage and a three-cell plan.

On the entrance front, there is a 6-panel 19th-century doorway located to the right of centre, beneath the stack. Flanking this doorway are four-light early 19th-century casement windows, with a similar window at the far left. The first floor has three 3-light casements. At the ridge, towards the right of centre, is a rectangular stack with saw-toothed flues above, complete with moulded bases and caps.

The right gable end is close studded and features a projecting ground floor bay window with 6-centred lights and two windows on either side. The first floor has a 4-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window, and there is a similar window in the attic with jowled corner posts. The rear of the building is mainly obscured at ground floor level by a 19th-century brick lean-to outshut with a pantile roof. On the first floor, there is a 4-light window with an ovolo-moulded surround to the left, and another similar window to the right of centre. To the far right is an additional lean-to with a catslide gambrel roof.

Inside, the screens passage features a panelled screen and jowled wall posts, one of which bears the initials SME below the date 1619. The ground floor rooms have ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with lamb's tongue end-stops, and there are signs of the service room division in the present kitchen. The first floor has close studding and reversed bracing, along with two blocked windows of three lights with ovolo-moulded mullions. The attics feature wind bracing.