Chestnut Farmhouse

Chestnut Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century for the rear wing and the mid-18th century for the front range, both designed with a lobby-entrance plan. The building features a rendered and whitewashed timber frame set on a brick plinth, with a slate roof on the front range and pantiles on the rear wing.

The exterior is two storeys high with a four-window range. The central entrance has a 20th-century door, flanked by an early 19th-century three-light casement window on the left and two similar casements on the right. There is a 20th-century window at the extreme left. The first floor has identical fenestration. The gabled roof has a central ridge stack and an external gable-end stack on the east side. The front range is also two storeys and has a three-window range. It features a central gabled porch from the 19th century, which does not have an inner door. There are early 19th-century three-light casement windows on either side of the porch, both under hood moulds with label stops, and three similar casements on the first floor, with the centre window having only two lights. The roof is gabled with a central ridge stack.

Inside the rear range, the timber frame is close-studded with jowled principal studs and tension bracing at the corners. There are sunk-quadrant bridging beams, with the beam in the south ground-floor room featuring spear-head stops. A 17th-century winder staircase leads from the first floor to the attic. The clasped purlin roof has been partly rebuilt. The front range has boxed bridging beams, an altered brick fireplace, and a butt-purlin roof with straight windbraces.