Chestnut Cottage

Chestnut Cottage is a detached house, now subdivided, dating from the late 15th to early 16th century, with alterations made later. The exterior is rendered, with a pantiled roof featuring coped raised verges and brick stacks. The house is single-storied with attics to number 77, and two-storied to number 79. Each house has three bays, with a mix of 19th and 20th century three-light casement windows. Number 77 features a central plank door within a chamfered freestone surround with a four-centred head, flanked by buttresses with offsets. Number 79 has a 20th-century central door.

Originally an open hall house with a cross-passage, the interior of number 77 retains traces of this layout. The position of the cross passage is still visible, and the former rear door (now internal) has a four-centred head. A service room on the left features a fireplace with an ovolo moulded lintel, while the former hall on the right is entered through a doorway with a chamfered, four-centre headed surround. The hall has a cambered ceiling comprising eight panels, with hollow-ovolo-hollow moulded beams. A slightly projecting jetty of the first floor extends over the inner room (now number 79). Timber joints suggest a possible former gallery across the back of the hall, linking the upper floors at either end of the house. The hall fireplace has an arched lintel and ogee-step-hollow moulded ashlar jambs. A chamfered doorway with a four-centred head is located on the first floor. The roof includes a raised cruck truss and remains of three tiers of windbracing. The interior of number 79 exhibits chamfered beams with scroll and struck stops; a cambered lintel, chamfered with scroll stops, is present on the fireplace in the room to the right, which is part of a 17th-century extension. The base of a raised cruck truss is visible on the first floor of the left room.