Chestnut Farmhouse

TM17NW 585-1/1/156

EYE LANGTON GREEN (West side) Chestnut Farmhouse

15/06/51

II Farmhouse. Late C17 rear wing with mid C18 front range, both with lobby-entrance plan. Rendered and whitewashed timber frame on brick plinth. Slate roof (front range) and pantiles. Rear wing.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, four-window range. Central C20 door. One early C19 three-light casement to left and two similar casements to right. To extreme left a C20 window. Identical fenestration to first floor. Gabled roof with central ridge stack and external gable-end stack to east. Front range. Two storeys, three window range. C19 central gabled porch, no inner door. One early C19 three-light casement right and left under hood moulds on label stops. Three similar first-floor casements, that to centre of two lights only. Gabled roof with central ridge stack.

INTERIOR: rear range. Close-studded timber frame with jowled principal studs and tension bracing at corners. Sunk-quadrant bridging beams, that to south ground-floor room with spear-head stops. C17 winder staircase from first floor to attic. Clasped purlin roof, partly rebuilt. Front range. Boxed bridging beams. Altered brick fireplace. Butt-purlin roof with straight windbraces.

Listing NGR: TM1386475382