The Chestnuts

The Chestnuts is a house dating from the mid-18th century, constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof, topped by ashlar end stacks. It is a two-storey and attic building with a five-window front. The house features an ashlar plinth, string course, cornice and parapet, with the parapet ramping up at each end. There are ashlar angle piers with mouldings that extend around the building and raised moulded surrounds to the 12-pane sash windows. The main entrance has a central six-panel door with an overlight, set within a raised moulded surround topped by a scroll pediment supported by brackets and a central urn. Decorative brickwork is present between the upper windows. Three gabled dormers light the attic space. A brick wing extends to the south east, featuring a three-window front with large 12-pane sashes, with the upper sashes breaking the eaves. A parallel range connects to the north east corner, with a stack at the north end. The house was illustrated in a sales catalogue from the Draycot Estate of 1920, and is mentioned in Nikolaus Pevsner's “Wiltshire” architectural guide of 1975.