The Chestnuts

The Chestnuts is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 16th century, built in two stages. It has two storeys and a three-cell plan, constructed with a timber frame and roughcast exterior. The roof is made of concrete tiles, which were originally thatched, and it is hipped at the rear. There is an axial chimney with a rebuilt shaft made of 20th-century red brick. The windows are mainly mid 19th-century small-pane casements, and there is a 20th-century entrance door at the rear. The heavy framing from the 16th century is fully exposed, featuring tension-braced close-studding, massive beams, and first-floor joists. The roof structure includes crownposts. Inside, there is a wide lintelled open fireplace in the hall. One of the cells at the rear of the house appears to have been an early 16th-century parlour, while the rest of the structure was rebuilt on the same site, with the parlour later converted into a service room by the mid 16th century.