Chestnut Street Farmhouse

Chestnut Street Farmhouse is a Wealden hall house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with 19th-century cladding. It features a timber frame that is clad with rendered brick and imitation timber frame. The building has three framed bays and a screens passage, standing two storeys high. The first floor jetties out on the left side, with an underbuilt jetty to the right. There is an arch-braced flying wall-plate over the central recessed bay. The roof is hipped with gablets and has a catslide outshot to the right, along with a stack on the left end. The fenestration is irregular, with three glazing bar sashes on each floor and a half-glazed, panelled door to the right, set within a half-timbered gabled porch. Inside, the right-hand wing was rebuilt in 1609, as indicated by a carved and dated beam, which likely marks the date of the inserted ceiling to the hall and the blocking off of the screens passage that survives internally to the left. The 17th-century wing has a blocked door on the right return front, featuring carved Ionic columns and a cornice. There are remnants of a dias beam in the hall, and the roof is supported by crown posts.