2, Chapel Street

This is a house dating to the early 17th century and the mid-19th century, located in Camelford. The exterior is rendered in stucco, with a slate roof featuring gable ends. A rendered brick stack is on the left-hand gable, and a rendered axial stack is located on the right side of the passage.

The house combines elements of earlier structures. The right-hand section likely incorporates the original inner room of a building, possibly related to the property at 34 Market Place. This early section originally had a heating stack and a circa 18th-century stair projection to the rear. Around the mid-19th century, a new range was constructed to the left, featuring a two-room, double-depth plan and a wide passage on the right, with a shallow stair projection to the rear. It’s possible that the original inner room from the earlier range was then incorporated into No. 2 Chapel Street. A lower section of the stair projection was possibly removed around this time to create a third room.

The house is two storeys, with an attic and basement, and has a regular two-bay facade. The mid-19th century range on the left features a semi-circular headed window with hornless sash glazing and a 19th-century six-panel door within a matching doorcase, topped with a fanlight. Two 19th-century four-pane sashes are on the first floor. To the right, part of the earlier range’s front wall has been rebuilt, incorporating a tripartite sash window on the ground floor and a four-pane sash above.

In the basement of the earlier range's right-hand section, there are two blocked openings, one containing the remains of an early 17th-century two-light mullion window, with mortices indicating the former presence of stanchion bars. The roof over the rear wing of the 18th-century stair projection has two trusses that have been partly renewed; the principals appear to have been halved, lapped, and pegged at the apices, and the collars lapped and pegged onto the face of the principals.