Chelston Farmhouse And Wall Linking Summerhouses On Facade, Continued South East

Chelston Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse that underwent refronting of an earlier dwelling when a rear wing was added, with further changes made in the 19th century. The building features red brick in Flemish bond and a random rubble plinth with a course of dressed lias on the facade, which is higher on the returns. It has a steeply pitched asbestos slate roof with coped verges and kneelers, along with brick stacks at the gable ends and to the right of the cross passage.

The farmhouse is laid out in an L-plan, comprising three cells and a cross passage, with a kitchen wing at the rear. It has two symmetrical summerhouses that abut the facade, linked by a boundary wall that continues to the south-west. The structure is two storeys high with four bays; the first floor features three-light leaded wooden casements, while the ground floor has three-light mullioned and transomed wooden casements, with a 20th-century leaded replacement to the right of the entrance. The entrance is marked by a 19th-century studded plank door, and wooden piers support a lead-roofed wooden porch. There are two windows in the gable ends that light the attics, and a two-bay wing at the rear has a probable 18th-century studded plank door at the junction with the main block, with no butt joint in the brickwork.

The summerhouses are constructed of red brick with monopitch slate roofs, concealed by a parapet that features semicircular headed blind niches on the facades. Their interiors are rendered and also include a pair of blind niches. A low red brick wall links the summerhouses and continues for about 20 meters as a chert random rubble wall with upper courses of brickwork, topped with coping of bricks set on end.