Chaffpool House

Detached two-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1880, now derelict. L-shaped on plan, projecting gable-fronted bay to north side of east elevation, single-storey canted bay window to south side, contiguous range of outbuildings to south. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack, rainwater goods missing from east elevation, cast-iron gutters on paired stone corbels to west elevation, projecting painted timber eaves and bargeboards. Lead sheet roof to bay window, moulded cast-iron gutters. Unpainted roughcast walling, unpainted smooth-rendered margins to gable-ends and bay window. Square-headed window openings, hood mouldings to windows in gable-ends, limestone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Small lunette on north gable, west elevation devoid of window openings. Round-headed entrance door opening, moulded render archivolt on plain pilasters, painted four-panel timber door, plain-glazed fanlight over, flanking square-headed sidelights with one-over-one sash windows, two stone steps. Square-headed door opening to west elevation, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Grass area to east, drystone boundary walls, extensive ranges of ruinous outbuildings to south and west with slate roofs and rubble stone walling, limestone quarry to north.

Although uninhabited for a number of years and in an advanced state of decay there is still much of interest to be found in the, rather austere, Chaffpool House. The lack of fenestration, with the exception of one lunette, on the north and west elevations is intriguing. The roof remains intact and remnants of sash windows survive. The extensive outbuildings and rubble stone boundary walls suggest possible associations with quarrying activity to the immediate north.