Chevers Farmhouse

Chevers Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century, constructed in three phases. It is two storeys high and has a three-cell plan, with an additional service cross-wing added around 1600. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a long-wall jettied hall range at the front with exposed joist-ends and a moulded, embattled girth beneath. The parlour block, dating from around 1500 and not integral with the hall range, is end-jettied with brackets and moulded pilaster-shafts. The roofs are plaintiled, with two axial chimneys of red brick from the 17th or 18th centuries. There are various small-pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries, and a 19th-century small-pane sash window in the parlour. The house has a 19th-century gabled porch made of painted brick, with a pantiled roof and a spike bargeboard finial, and a panelled door with glazed upper panels. Inside, there is high-quality exposed framing, including scotia-moulded beams and joists in the hall, with central posts that have mutilated moulded capitals that once supported carved figures, possibly angels. The parlour block also features a massive arch-braced tie-beam in the chamber, with braces rising from pilasters, and there is a blocked 4-centred arched doorway to a service room. The service cross-wing from around 1600 incorporates a plain crownpost roof of 14th or early 15th-century origin, while the hall range has a clasped-purlin roof. The farmhouse is situated just south of a medieval homestead moat.