Chestnut Farmhouse

Chestnut Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse originally built with a three-room plan, with a projecting parlour wing to the left. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with plaintiled roofs. It features a prominent axial chimney constructed of red brick, with four octagonal flues that have moulded bases and a square plinth. Most of the windows are 20th-century replacements, although two first-floor windows, one with three lights and one with four, retain their original features: ovolo-moulded mullions and leaded glazing using diamond, hexagonal, and early crown glass, which is a rare survival. Other original windows have been blocked and subsequently replaced with 20th-century glazing. The entrance is via a 20th-century oak plank door. Inside, the parlour chamber retains some ovolo-moulded main beams, one with ogee mouldings. There are two original open fireplaces. A section of 16th-century panelling in the hall may have originally been part of a cross-passage screen. The interior also has several moulded plank doors and some early 18th-century joinery. The roof structure is a clasped purlin roof.