Chesterman'S Farmhouse

Chesterman’s Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-frame farmhouse, significantly altered and heavily restored, with a later red brick rear wing. It has Bridgwater tile roofs. The original building was low and incorporated a cross wing to the left, which was later substantially raised, leaving the original gable line visible as a tie-beam and principal rafter. The framing is square. The front range has a west-facing stack and a roof which is half-hipped at the north-east angle. It now has a three-window range of 20th-century casement windows, with traces of earlier timber mullions visible in the upper windows. The west wall is timber-framed, featuring a pair of casements, and the stack has been incorporated into a 19th-century two-storey, two-window brick rear range, constructed of five-row brickwork alternating between stretchers and headers. A timber lean-to porch shelters the front door, above which sits a reset datestone reading ‘M.M.-1668’.