Old Chapel

Old Chapel is a farmhouse dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, which was modernised in the late 19th century. It is constructed of local stone and flint rubble, with limestone ashlar quoins on the main block. Although the front is plastered, a section of coursed blocks of limestone ashlar is visible at the west end. The building features stone rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick and has a thatched roof.

The house has an F-plan layout, with a main block that includes a three-room-and-cross-passage plan facing south-south-west. The centre room is heated by an axial stack that backs onto the left (western) room. The passage is located between the centre and right rooms, with the right room featuring a gable-end stack. There are single-storey service blocks, each with a one-room plan, projecting to the rear of the right room and behind the left of centre. Although an internal inspection was not conducted, it is believed that the house originally functioned as a 16th-century open hall house, possibly heated by an open hearth fire. The structure is now two storeys tall with single-storey service blocks at the rear.

The exterior has an irregular four-window front. The right window on the ground floor is a 19th-century 20-pane sash, while the other windows are a mix of 19th-century casements with glazing bars. The passage front doorway, located to the right of centre, features a 19th-century part-glazed door behind a wrought iron trellis porch that includes the date 1924. The left ground floor window is set in the blocking of a triangular-headed limestone ashlar doorway from the 16th or 17th century. The main roof is half-hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right.

While the interior was not inspected during the survey, the owner claims it contains a significant amount of carpentry and other details. Old Chapel is part of a charming group of listed buildings that make up the scattered hamlet of Rawridge.