Chancellors Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

Chancellors Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with later additions, situated in Priddy. It is built of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled pantile roof, original stone end stacks, and an axial stack rebuilt in brick. The original plan was three units, with a stack backing onto a through passage to the left of centre. A further bay was added in the later 17th century, and a late 18th/early 19th-century wing was added to the rear, along with a kitchen.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a three-window front. It features timber lintels over a plank door with a pentice hood, and two-light casements. The rear elevation has a 20th-century plank door set in a chamfered stone architrave, and retains 17th-century stone mullioned windows, some with two and three lights to the ground floor, as well as late 19th-century two-light casements to the first floor. The rear wing has a two-window range with similar casements and 19th-century plank doors.

Inside, the farmhouse retains stone flag floors, deeply-chamfered beams (those to the first floor having roll stops), and 17th- to 19th-century plank doors. The ground floor includes two service rooms to the right, divided by an axial screen with splat balusters and a plank and muntin partition with 18th-century panelled doors, a rare survival. There is also a blocked hall fireplace with moulded stone jambs. Around 1800 a partition divided the through passage from the parlour, the parlour itself having an approximately 1800 cast-iron grate and a panelled door to a winder stair. The back kitchen contains a pump and a large open fireplace with a bread oven adjoining two coppers. A large first-floor room, positioned over the hall and the service end of the building, has a fine early 17th-century fireplace with moulded stone jambs and a foliate plaster panel above. The roof of the rear wing incorporates reset 15th-century roof trusses with trefoil and mouchette carving to the openwork collars.

Attached outbuildings are constructed of similar materials. One-storey outbuilding facing the front has a reset 15th-century one-light window. To the rear left is a late 18th/early 19th-century open-fronted cartshed attached at right angles to a two-storey stable range, which has timber lintels over a loft door above two 20th-century plank doors and two-light casements. The interior of the working-house stable contains chamfered beams, a cobbled floor, mangers, a feeding rack, and a collar-truss roof with butt purlins to the loft. The hackney horse stable has a 19th-century ramped stall and a cobbled floor.