2, The Square

This is a small house dating to around 1820, situated on the west side of The Square in Chacewater. It is constructed of killas and elvan rubble with elvan and freestone dressings, with cob to part of the right gable end and stud and plaster walling to a wing. The roof is covered with scantle slate, sloping lower to the rear and left, with brick chimneys on the gable ends. The house has an L-shaped plan, comprising two front rooms, a central cross passage and staircase, a kitchen wing to the rear right, and a narrow service room to the rear left.

The symmetrical north-east facing road front has two windows. The central doorway features freestone and elvan ashlar pilasters, moulded impost stones, a round-headed arch with a keystone, an architrave and a cornice. It has a top-glazed six-panel door with a blind fanlight above. A rendered plinth supports flat dressed stone arches with projecting keystones over the windows, which have elvan sills. The original twelve-pane hornless sash windows are mostly original, with mostly original crown glass. Original sashes are also present in the wing and stairwell, and a sixteen-pane two-light casement is found at the rear, left.

The interior retains original features, including an original T-plan staircase, mahogany doors with moulded architraves, original floors, bead moulded beams in the wing, and the original roof structure. A blocked borrowed light between the right-hand room and passage indicates that the front door fanlight has always been blind. Cobbled pavement extends to the front. The house is an interesting example of a small town house, with a farmhouse-style rear kitchen wing and integral service room, modified and reduced in scale to fit the available site.