Farm Cottages

Farm Cottages, located in Chilson, are a house that has now been divided, likely dating from the late 16th century with alterations and additions from the 18th century and early 20th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and features an addition of squared and coursed limestone. It has a stone slate roof and a two-unit plan with later flanking additions. The structure stands two storeys high and includes a central stone ridge stack with weatherings, which has been rebuilt in brick at the top, and an off-centre stone ridge stack to the left, also rebuilt in the 20th century.

The front of the building has two windows; on the first floor, there are three-light wooden-framed leaded metal casements, while the ground floor features three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned stone windows with leaded lights. To the right, there is a 20th-century half-glazed door with a wooden lintel. A lower addition, likely from the 18th century, is to the right and includes a 20th-century brick ridge stack off-centre to the right, with two-light leaded casements on each floor, both having wooden lintels and cills. The ground-floor window in this section may have been a former doorway. There is also a one-storey lean-to to the right. An early 20th-century addition to the left features a half-glazed door with a wooden lintel.

At the rear of the right-hand part, there is a two-storey wing with a parapeted gable end. Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room has an altered 16th-century stone fireplace with moulded jambs and a later mantel-shelf. There is an old plank door leading to the first-floor rear corridor, which has wrought-iron strap hinges and a chamfered oak frame with a mason's mitre. A collar truss is visible in the right-hand cottage, and the windows have deep splayed jambs. The interior of the left-hand cottage has not been inspected. These cottages were likely once part of a larger and more significant house.