Chestlion Farmhouse

Chestlion Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, potentially incorporating elements of an early 14th-century building, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a hipped stone slate roof. The house follows a central through-passage plan.

The main front has three storeys raised on a chamfered plinth and features a three-window facade. A two-light chamfered mullion window with leaded lights and dripstones is positioned directly below the eaves on the second floor. A three-light mullion window is located to the left of the central entrance, and a four-light mullion window is on the right. A mid-19th century Gothic-traceried panelled door, set in a chamfered surround with a rectangular overlight and dripstone, provides access. A rectangular projection to the right has a two-light mullion window with a dripstone on the ground floor, and a coping resembling an integral stack at the top. A small, reused blind trefoil-headed lancet is set into the right wall. The left return of the main range has an integral lateral stack, with a shaft rebuilt in 20th-century brown brick, and an infilled two-light chamfered mullion window with a dripstone directly below. Three single-light windows with dripstones are in the left corner, one on each floor, with those on the first and second floors being infilled.

The rear of the house features an internal stack in the roof slope to the right, with two attached shafts and dripstones, and capping. A full-length, two-storey lean-to, also on a chamfered plinth, extends below this. It has three three-light mullion windows on the first floor, with the centre and right lights of the middle window infilled. The ground floor has mullion windows with dripstones; a four-light window on the left and a three-light window on the right of the central doorway. This lean-to aligns with the through passage and includes a half-glazed door with a rectangular overlight and dripstone. A three-light mullion window is on the first floor to the right side of the lean-to. A further lean-to, apparently of the same build, continues along the right return of the main range. A small gabled projection to the left corner (viewed from the rear) houses a bread oven.

The interior features chamfered ceiling beams to the ground and first floor rooms. There is a moulded segmental-arched fireplace to the back wall of the room to the right of the entrance, and a chamfered stone fireplace to the corresponding room above. A 18th-century roll-moulded fireplace surround is in the room to the left of the entrance. A winder staircase is situated off the central passage. Stone flag floors are present and there is a cellar below the left part of the house. The rectangular projection to the front has a blind, single-splayed window and a triple hollow-moulded pointed archway with a hoodmold leading into the room behind. A doorway, appearing to be early 14th century, is present, but its in-situ status is difficult to determine due to rendered walls.