Chaffpool House

The saved account records: Detached two-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1880, now derelict.

The saved account records: 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.

The saved account records: 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.

The saved account records: 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.

Chaffpool House matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: 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. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.