Chestnut Farmhouse And Attached Outhouse

Chestnut Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, remodelled in the early 18th century, with 19th-century additions and alterations to the north end, and later alterations. It is constructed of coursed pennant rubble with double Roman tiled roofs, brick and stone gable stacks, and some pantiles. Originally designed with a symmetrical four-room plan, the farmhouse has two-and-a-half storeys and three windows across the front. These windows are triple windows with a central eight-pane sash and narrower four-pane sashes to either side. The ground floor has three windows to the left and right of the front door. The front door itself is a 20th-century four-panelled door to the left, and an eight-panelled door to the right, both with flat wooden hoods supported by scrolled brackets with an egg and dart moulding. A lower two-storey block is located to the right, featuring two windows: an eight-pane sash on the ground and first floors to the left, and a triple window, matching the main front, to the right. The left return has a single-storey, pantiled lean-to to the right, and a one-and-a-half storey stair turret to the left with a fixed two-pane window in the upper part and a pitched roof. A straight joint on the rear of the turret suggests it is a later addition. The right return has two gable ends, one of the main house and one of a rear two-storey wing (possibly a dairy). The rear of the house features a two-storey wing to the left constructed of different stonework, with smaller rubble blocks at ground floor level. The ground floor of this wing has two two-light casements with timber lintels, and the first floor has two eight-pane sashes. There is a ground-floor six-pane casement, a wooden cross window with a flat mullion and transom, and doors to the left and right. A garderobe tower with a pitched roof is located to the right of the rear of the house, with a three-light casement to the left and a similar cross window centrally on the first floor. The rear also has three small gables: two of stone to the left, and two of brick to the right. A single-storey outhouse with a two-span roof is attached to the rear by a covered way and features a two-light casement and two doors on the interior side. The plan is unusual, with lateral fireplaces, and suggests it may have originally been the house of a gentleman rather than a yeoman farmer. The interior has not been inspected, but details of the staircase and panelled parlour can be found in published sources.