Chalkdell

Chalkdell is a house dating from around the early 16th century, with remodels in the 17th century and alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish garden wall bond and Flemish bond, with exposed timber framing on the end trusses and weatherboarding at the south end. The roof is thatched with half-hipped ends, and there is a brick axial stack.

The building has a three-room plan featuring an axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces that heat the central and northeast end rooms. The northeast end was likely originally open to the roof and heated by an open hearth fire, while the central and southwest end rooms were floored. The partition on the ground floor between the central and southwest end rooms has been removed, and the northeast end has been floored.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and presents an asymmetrical four-window northwest front, featuring small 20th-century casements, attic windows beneath eyebrow eaves, and a plank door to the left with a 20th-century porch that has a thatched canopy on posts. The similar southeast elevation has a doorway on the right, also with a thatched porch.

Inside, the partition between the central and southwest end room has been removed, and the fireplace in the axial stack has been rebuilt. The first floor is supported by stop-chamfered axial beams with hollow-step stops and unchamfered joists. The north end features a chamfered cross-beam and later inserted partitions. The roof consists of collar and tie-beam trusses with clasped purlins and common-rafter couples that do not have a ridgepiece. At the northeast end, there are smoke-blackened common-rafter couples, with the northeast end pair having a small collar at the apex for the hip gablet. There is also evidence of smoke-blackening on the central truss to the southwest of the stack.