Chaxhill House

Chaxhill House is an early 19th-century farmhouse. It was originally accompanied by a stable block, though this has been altered and partially demolished and is no longer listed. The farmhouse has rendered walls with an underlying ashlar lining over a painted stone plinth, and a tiled roof, with slate to the front slope and a later extension on the right. It is three bays wide and two rooms deep, with a hipped roof. The main block is three storeys high. A symmetrical three-storey section fronts the building. The front door is a six-panel design, set two stone steps above ground level, with fielded upper panels and a flush bottom panel. It has a semi-circular fanlight with curved glazing bars in a reeded frame. Corinthian pillars flank the door, each with impost blocks decorated with paterae and an open pediment above. Four-pane wide sash windows are on each side of the front elevation; the first floor has similar windows on the external walls, and a three-pane wide sash window is centrally positioned. The second-floor windows match the first floor, but the upper sashes have only one pane. Above, there is a projecting cornice and a plain parapet, with cable decoration to the front slope. Projecting gable chimneys are visible, with two on the right and one on the left. A single-storey rendered extension is on the right, mirroring the design of the main block; it breaks forward slightly, featuring a semi-circular headed opening with a French door and glazed upper panels over two flush panels, topped with a plain parapet. A balancing extension was built in about 1973 and is not of special architectural interest.