Cholwell Farmhouse

Cholwell Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse, incorporating earlier 17th-century features to the rear, and with later alterations. The farmhouse is built of rubble, plastered and lined, with a hipped slate roof and stacks with caps on the right and left sides. It has a double-depth plan with the main rooms on either side of a central entrance hall, with further rooms behind. It is suggested that a full internal inspection could reveal rebuilding of an earlier house to the rear.

The front of the farmhouse has two storeys and three windows, all elliptical-headed 16-pane sashes with splayed glazing bars in plain reveals and cills. A central porch has a half-glazed door and elliptical fanlight, a cornice, and a blocking course. There is an eaves cornice to the house. The left return is two windows wide, matching the front, with a rubble curtain wall attached to the left, rendered and approximately 4 metres high and 6 metres long. The right return is plastered for about 4 metres, with the remainder being random rubble and quoins. On the ground floor right is a four-light multi-pane window with a flat splayed stone head. The first floor has a 16-pane sash with a similar stone head and a small blocked opening to the left.

The rear of the farmhouse has a covered area to the right, behind the curtain wall, supported by two square rubble piers. An attached 1½-storey block has a tall, round-headed stair light, a 24-pane sash with splayed glazing bars, bowed. A two-storey rear wing has, on its inner side, slate-hanging at the upper level, and a three-light casement at ground floor right. The roof level is lower to the left, with a four-centred arched, stone, chamfered doorway with a panelled door, possibly reset, and a small two-light casement above. A hipped roof covers the end, with a similar doorway to the right, a four-pane light with a timber lintel first floor, and a four-pane light at ground floor left. The rear wing’s left side has a two-light casement at ground floor left and a blocked opening to the right. There are two raking dormers, each with a three-light casement, over the rear wing, with bitumen on the roof. A straight joint marks the rear of the main building. A large stone stack with granite quoins is situated at the junction.

Inside, the inner six-panelled front door leads to an entrance hall with an open-well stair to the rear, featuring a moulded handrail. The rest of the building was not accessible at the time of listing.