Chinner House

Chinner House is a house dating from the early 16th century, with later additions and alterations in the 17th century. A stone datestone marked 1657, with the initials WL?MC, is positioned above the front doorway. The construction is of coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, with a thatched roof and brick stacks. The house comprises two adjoining blocks. The right-hand block is the earlier hall house, built around 1500, and is one storey high with an attic, spanning three bays. To the left is a 17th-century extension, two storeys high with an attic, also spanning three bays. The doorway within the left bay of the right-hand block features a 17th-century moulded wooden frame enclosing a two-panel door, with a 20th-century wooden hood over. The right side of the original block has a 20th-century bay window and two further 20th-century casement windows with wooden lintels. A window to the left of the doorway has two lights with a wooden lintel and mullion. A 17th-century five-light window with a wooden lintel and moulded mullions is found in the left bay. A 20th-century window occupies the first floor on the left, while the central first-floor window is original, with three lights and wooden mullions. A small two-light window with a wooden mullion is to the right. Rear windows are mostly 20th-century, except for a 17th-century first-floor window of three lights with wooden mullions in the right bay, and a similar four-light window on the ground floor of the left-hand side. The left block exhibits coped gable ends with kneelers and flanking brick stacks. Internally, a pair of cruck beams, noted to be an unusual feature for the region ("the only use of the orthodox cruck form recorded"), are exposed in an early 19th-century section. The roof is a collar construction with arch braces. The 17th-century section contains a corner fireplace with the original bressumer on the ground floor. Originally a single-storey, three-bay hall house, the original hall was converted into kitchen and service rooms, and a floor inserted to provide bedrooms, at the time the 17th-century parlour wing was built to the left.