Chesterton Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding And Garden Wall

Chesterton Farmhouse, along with its attached outbuilding and garden wall, is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 18th century, with some additions and alterations made in the mid 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble and features an artificial stone slate roof, with three rendered and brick stacks at the ridge and both ends. The main section of the farmhouse has a hipped roof and includes a single-storey-and-attic addition to the right, as well as further additions at the rear. The structure is two storeys tall, with an attic and cellar, and has a three-window range.

On the first floor, there are two 19th-century two-light timber casements on the right and one 19th-century 8/8-pane sash window on the left. The ground floor features four similar two-light casements and one sash window. A mid 19th-century half-glazed door with a four-pane overlight is located in a mid 19th-century pedimented porch to the center left. The building has flush quoins at the left and right angles, as well as at the right angle of the addition to the right. The rear elevation includes a gabled wing to the right, a two-storey cement-rendered lean-to, and two gabled dormers with two-light timber casements.

Inside, the farmhouse has a 19th-century stick baluster staircase with an oak grip handrail, stop-chamfered beams with run-out stops in the first-floor front right and center rooms, and a boxed-out beam in the ground floor front right. There are mid 19th-century fireplaces in the first-floor front left and ground floor front right, along with a 19th-century roof structure featuring threaded purlins.

The outbuilding, which was formerly a washhouse and boilhouse, is located at the rear and is built into the garden wall. It is constructed with rat-trap bond brick for the rear and left side walls, and coursed squared limestone and 19th/20th-century brick for the front, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The outbuilding contains two 19th-century two-light timber casements and two plank doors, as well as slate shelves in the left room and a privy attached to the right.

The garden wall, approximately 2 meters high, is made of rat-trap bond brick largely faced with limestone rubble on the exterior and features stone coping. It encloses the kitchen garden located at the rear of the house.