Chaytor Cottage West Cottage West Hall

House, now divided into three dwellings (West Cottage, West Hall, and Chaytor Cottage), probably dating from the early 17th century. It stands on the west side of Kirby Hill village green.

The building is constructed of rubble stone with stone slate roofs. It has an irregular T-shaped plan with a wing projecting to the front left, rising to two storeys plus a loft. The main range comprises one-and-a-half cells with the wing containing four cells.

The east front facing the green features quoins to the right. The ground floor contains, from left to right: a 2-light window; a scar marking a former doorway; a part-glazed 6-panel door in a quoined ashlar doorcase with triangular soffit to the lintel and stop-chamfered ogee-moulding on the arris (serving West Hall); a 20th-century 3-light window; a 20th-century 3-light window; and a 20th-century single-storey gabled porch with a part-glazed door (serving Chaytor Cottage). The first floor displays a 2-light window, a 3-light window, and two 20th-century windows of 3 and 2 lights respectively. A large chimney stack stands to the left of the central door, with a smaller stack between the second and third windows, and a 20th-century stack at the right end. At the far left, beside the wing, there are a blocked ground-floor vent and a blocked first-floor single-light window. The east gable end of the south-east wing contains a ground-floor sash window with glazing bars (formerly the entrance to a village shop) and a blocked first-floor window.

The rear elevation shows Chaytor Cottage (to the left) extensively altered in the 20th century. West Hall's rear displays, on the ground floor, a 2-light window to the extreme right, a blocked fire window in the centre, and parts of other mullion windows; on the first floor are four 2-light windows with dripmoulds. The left return of the main range features quoins and includes a 20th-century 3-light window on both ground and first floors, while the gable contains an original 3-light window with its outer lights blocked. This section has moulded coping and a corniced apex stack.

An inserted link between the main range and West Cottage features a side-sliding sash window below a round-arched landing window with a brick reveal; below the head of this landing window sits a 2-light mullion window, and above it a double-chamfered single-light window formerly serving the upper flights of stairs leading to the loft.

West Cottage shows a plinth and quoins. On its ground floor, from left to right, are an inserted window, leaved part-glazed doors in a chamfered ashlar surround with high chamfer stops and triangular soffit to the lintel, a 3-light window, and a blocked fire window. The first floor contains two 2-light windows, with a similar blocked window to the left and a blocked fire window to the right. A moulded ashlar coping appears to the right, and there are end stacks, the right one being large and stepped.

The right return of the south-east wing shows quoins to West Cottage; to the left on each floor is a blocked 2-light window; to the right on each floor is a smaller 2-light window. The further right section (link to West Hall) has a 2-light window on each floor.

The interior of West Hall contains several significant features. In the ground-floor room to the left of centre, the right wall holds an ashlar fireplace with stop-chamfered moulding and triangular soffit to the lintel, next to which is a fire window opening and stop-chamfered beams and joists. In the ground-floor room to the right of centre, the rear wall features a large ashlar fireplace with triangular soffit to the lintel and a straight-headed chamfer, stopped, with roughly stop-chamfered beams. On the first floor, the room to the left of centre contains an ashlar fireplace with ogee-section chamfer and moulded plaster cornice. The central room backing onto this has a chamfered ashlar straight-headed fireplace. The room to the right of centre displays, on its rear wall, a chamfered ashlar fireplace with a monolithic lintel featuring triangular soffit.

The roof structure features curved-principal trusses.