Chalket Farmhouse

Chalket Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse, significantly modernised with extensions built around 1980. The ground floor is underbuilt with brick, primarily using a stretcher bond pattern from around 1980. However, the west end possibly incorporates 18th-century Flemish bond red brick with burnt headers. The timber framing above is clad in weatherboard. The brick stack has a staggered chimney shaft; the lower section of the shaft is original brick. The roof is covered in peg tiles.

Originally built across a hillslope, the main block faces south and was initially designed with a three-room lobby entrance plan. The original entrance has since been blocked. A large axial stack serves back-to-back fireplaces between what was likely the original kitchen (the main centre room) and the parlour on the left (west) end. A previously unheated room on the right end was originally used for service functions, such as a buttery or pantry. A partition separating this service room from the centre room has been removed, and a two-storey service extension was added around 1980 to the right end.

The main part of the house is two storeys high and has attic space in the roof, along with a lean-to outshot at the rear left.

The exterior has an irregular three-window front, featuring casement windows with a leaded pane effect from around 1980, and two contemporary ground floor French windows. Similar windows are found on the other sides of the building, including a rebuilt oriel window on the left (west) end. This west end has a jettied first floor, but the jetty bressummer is hidden. The right end is also jettied on both the first and attic floor levels; the lower jetty bressummer is concealed, but the upper one is moulded and brattished, supported on ornamental oak consoles. The main roof is gable-ended and includes three front-gabled dormer windows.

Inside, the larger rooms on both floors have chamfered axial beams with scroll stops, and fireplaces with oak lintels featuring chamfered low Tudor arches. The centre room fireplace incorporates large blocks of sandstone ashlar. The roof has been repaired in the 20th century, but still retains significant elements of the original clasped side purlin roof structure.