Chestnut Cottage

Chestnut Cottage is a pair of cottages and a former shop, dating from around the late 18th century, with extensions from around the early to mid-19th century and a shop addition from around the early 20th century. The building is constructed of local shale rubble with granite dressings and has whitewashed side walls and a rear wing of plastered cob. The rear wall and first floor of the front are hung with scantle slates. The roof is covered with scantle slates, with a red clay ridge tile and deep eaves, and a gabled rear wing. Brick chimney shafts are rendered, with a gable end stack to the rear wing.

The early to mid-19th century range (number 2) has a double-depth plan; it features two small principal front rooms on either side of a central entrance passage with a straight staircase at the back, along with shallow service rooms. The left-hand back room is part of an earlier, late 18th century, two-room plan cottage that was incorporated into the 19th century house as a rear wing. The rear wing (number 1) is now a separate cottage and may have always been so. A small lean-to shop was built around the early 20th century on the right-hand side of the building.

The symmetrical, three-window, south-east front has a slate-hung first floor with diamond-shaped panels between the windows, created using a fishscale pattern slate hanging. The windows are early to mid-19th century 16-pane sashes with slate cills. The central doorway likely features a 19th century panelled door, now boarded over with glazed panels in the upper portion. The rear wing is entirely slate hung and features one small early to mid-19th century 16-pane sash window on each floor to the right, and a larger 16-pane sash in the angle to the left above a 20th century glazed and panelled back door. To the left, the inner face of the rear wing has a small early to mid-19th century ground floor and later 19th century first floor 16-pane sash, the ground floor window with dressed granite lintels and jambs. To the right, a recessed 19th century plank door is also located within the angle of the main range, with a splayed window above. The early 20th century lean-to shop front on the right-hand side has an original 8-pane shop window and a plank door to the left, with louvres above and weatherboarding in the gable.

Inside, there is an early to mid-19th century straight staircase with a turned newel and moulded handrail. The fireplaces are 20th century replacements.