Chapel Farmhouse and attached outbuilding

Chapel Farmhouse and attached outbuilding

A rubble stone house with slate roofs, arranged in an L-plan. The taller eastern range is two-storey with attic and dates from the early 17th century, while the lower south-eastern range is from the later 16th century with an early 17th-century two-storey porch added to it. Stone stacks with twin brick shafts stand at the north end of the eastern range and on the west side, with a brick-shafted stack at the west end of the older range, reduced in height.

The south front displays a gable to the right belonging to the 17th-century range, fitted with 19th-century fretted bargeboards and a stone finial. Stone mullion windows include a 2-light ovolo-moulded example to the attic, a 3-light with transom to the first floor, and a 4-light with chamfered surrounds to the ground floor. The three-bay east front appears to have been restored possibly in the 19th century, with recessed chamfered stone mullion windows. A small eaves-breaking 2-light attic window with 19th-century bargeboards sits within a dormer gable. The first floor has 3-light windows each side and a 2-light to the right of centre; the ground floor has 4-light windows with transoms each side and a door to the right of centre. Segmental pointed relieving arches top all windows with flush surrounds and no sills. The door has a segmental pointed head with stone voussoirs. A lean-to has been added at the north end.

The rear west side features a prominent rubble stone chimney gable projecting with a small 3-light timber-mullion window to the upper left, apparently from the late 16th century. Beyond this wall is a 3-light timber-mullion first-floor window, also apparently of late 16th-century date, suggesting either reused windows or that part of this cross-range predates the rest of the structure.

The lower western range has on its south front a large gabled 17th-century porch with 19th-century stone finial. A small 19th-century timber oriel window sits on the first floor above a ground-floor chamfered Tudor-arched entry. Massive stones with voussoirs form the door head, and the jambs have barred pyramid stops. Small chamfered lights flank the entry on the side walls. Within the porch stands a studded plank door with strap hinges in a bead-moulded frame. The beam above the entry features diagonal stops to joists and a stepped run-out stop.

The original range to the left has a first-floor painted 3-light timber-mullion window beneath the eaves with chamfered mullions, and a larger ground-floor 3-light painted timber-mullion window set further to the right. The end of a cruck spur is visible to the left of the upper window. The west end gable is split, with a stack on the right part and the left part projecting slightly further, featuring a loft door into this section on the north return. Two spurs of cruck trusses are visible on the rear north side, which has a ground-floor lean-to covering what may have been a door and 5-light mullion window, with a first-floor centre 3-light mullion window above.

The attached outbuilding is a single-storey range running westward, originally comprising seven open bays with rubble stone round piers between them, now largely infilled. A short right-hand section in rubble stone contains a door between a single light and 2-light windows in eroded sandstone frames, possibly reused. The roof is corrugated iron supported on oak queen-strut tie-beam trusses.

According to Fox and Raglan's plan, the earlier western range originally featured an ashlar west fireplace with an arched head and winding stairs to the left, originally divided by partition into two rooms, with the 17th-century eastern range built at a skew angle to it. The upper floor of the rear range measures 8.74 metres by 6.5 metres externally, with an internal width of 5.56 metres, containing two cruck trusses positioned each over a ceiling beam. Pegged collars sit 2.44 metres above the floor. The added range had a large fireplace at the north end, a small side wall fireplace, and stairs to the west. The first floor had partitions at the stair head and around the west wall fireplace.