Kinnings Farmhouse

Kinnings Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse with 20th-century alterations, located in Chittlehamholt. The building features painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof that has gable ends. It includes an axial brick stack and brick shafts for a rendered stone rubble stack at the right gable end. The layout consists of three rooms in a line: a parlour heated by a gable end stack at the upper right end, a larger kitchen heated by the axial stack, and a small service room at the left end. There are direct entrances into the parlour and the lower end of the kitchen, with a staircase in the rear left-hand corner of the kitchen. The parlour's separate heating source and the distinct roof structure, along with a massive cob wall partition that includes the stack between the kitchen and parlour, suggest that the parlour is a late 17th or early 18th-century addition.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a three-window range, all featuring 20th-century two-light casements. The entrance includes a plank door with the upper two panels glazed to the left, and a plank door leading to a cross-passage doorway to the right, each flanked by two-light casements. Inside, much of the 19th-century joinery remains intact, and there are remnants of a late 17th or early 18th-century moulded plaster cornice in the parlour. The 17th-century roof structure over the kitchen and service room is entirely intact beneath a 20th-century superimposed roof. The kitchen has a low ceiling, and the original fireplace may be concealed behind a 20th-century grate. Kinnings Farmhouse is a notable example of the typical farmhouses found in Chittlehamholt, which were established in the former 'holt' or wood that was divided and enclosed into small farms during the 17th century.