Chaffinches Farmhouse

Chaffinches Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, built around 1800-1820 as part of the Manhood estate type. The building is primarily constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with grey headers, while the rear wall and kitchen L-wing are made of cobbles with red brick lacing courses. It has a tiled roof with end brick chimneystacks and stands two storeys tall with attics in the gable end, featuring three windows on the main house. The 20th-century wooden cross casement windows are set within the existing openings. There is a central doorcase with an original six-panelled door and a wooden porch. An attached front garden wall made of cobbles has brick coping and central brick gatepiers topped with pyramidal stone caps. The rear elevation includes a large 20th-century flat-roofed dormer, and the L-wing is a single storey. Inside, the ground floor has stone flags, an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer in the front right room, a staircase with stick balusters and a column newel post, six panelled doors, and a late 18th-century wooden fireplace with decorative features, which may have been added later.