Higher Chaddlehanger And Attached Gate-Piers

Higher Chaddlehanger and Attached Gate-Piers is a farmhouse of mid to late 16th century date, extended in the later 17th century, with 19th and 20th century alterations including a 20th century re-roofing. The building is constructed from rubble, rendered and whitewashed, with a slate roof. It features a gable stack to the left, a rear lateral stack to the hall, and a ridge stack to the right, with a concrete tiled rear wing.

The building follows a 3-room and through-passage plan with a rear lateral hall stack, a stair tower to the rear of the hall, an inner room, and a chamber above heated by a gable end stack to the left. The ridge stack indicates an extension to the lower end to the right. A 2-storey porch projects to the front of the passage. To the rear of the inner room is a dairy, probably part of a later addition and unheated, with what is likely an early 18th century stable addition to the rear right.

The façade presents 2 storeys and 4 windows. To the left, the gable contains a 19th century 2-light casement of 4 panes per light at first floor level, with a wrought iron finial to the gable set back from the main range. A 19th century bay at ground floor with a pitched roof and 6-light window projects forward. To the right are a 3-light 8-pane casement at ground floor lighting the hall and a small 3-light casement under the eaves. The 2-storey gabled porch to the front has battered walls and features a 2-centred arched opening in a chamfered granite surround with a 20th century gate. The inner doorway is a plank and ledged door in a wooden ovolo-moulded frame with a glass panel and strap hinges. Above this is a small 2-light casement with a hollow-chamfered mullion and 3 panes per light. To the right of the porch are ground and first floor 2-light casements, a half-glazed door, and a 20th century single light. The right return has an attached single-storey rubble turnip shed with a slate and corrugated iron roof, a 2-pane light to the front, double doors, and an upper pitching eye in the gable end. The left return features a rear wing stepped out from the main range, a single-storey lean-to with a slate roof and a 2-light casement at first floor level.

The rear elevation has lean-to additions along the ground floor, including a 2-light casement at first floor level to the left, with the wall stepped back at the ridge stack. The central range has a door with raised fillets and a glazed panel in a chamfered frame set within a glazed porch, and a 2-light casement under the eaves. A lean-to attached to the rear of the lateral stack has a door and a 20th century light. The stair tower has a pitched roof and a 4-pane 19th century light. The rear wing projecting beyond the stair tower has an unglazed opening at ground floor and a small 4-pane light under the eaves to the inner side, with a slightly lower roof level on the barn at the end of the wing and double doors with a timber lintel.

Attached to the rear left are a pair of granite gate-piers, rough-cut with ball finials, approximately 1 metre high.

Internally, the passage contains a brick partition to the hall and a solid wall to the right. The fireplace to the rear of the hall has a granite chamfered jamb to the left and greenstone to the right, with a timber lintel and cloam oven recess. A smoke chamber lies to the left with roughly hewn beams. A chamfered doorframe with an 18th century 2-panelled door leads to the rear stair, which has an open well with turned balusters. The dairy to the rear left has a stone floor and a solid wall to the inner room. At first floor level over the porch and passage, the roof is probably early 18th century with principal rafters and halved and lapped collars. The roof over the hall also features halved and lapped collars with side-pegged trusses. A plank and ledged door with strap hinges opens into the room over the porch. The roof over the lower end was not inspected. The walls are clean.