Chantry Cottage Kirkham Cottage

Chantry Cottage and Kirkham Cottage is a house divided into two, likely built in the late 17th century. It has a picturesque appearance and is constructed from rendered local red breccia with a thatched roof and stacks featuring rendered shafts. The overall plan is Z-shaped. The main block is single-depth, with one principal room heated by an end stack, and an entrance at the end of an outshut on the front that also contains a winder stair. The wing, which is slightly misaligned, consists of one room heated from an end stack, with a later block extending at right angles to the rear.

The building has two storeys. The entrance elevation of the main block features a one-window front, with the thatch sweeping down over the projecting end of the outshut to the left. There is a 20th-century boarded front door into the outshut, adorned with ornamental strap hinges. Most windows are 20th-century timber casements with diamond leaded panes. To the right, there is a three-light casement under a slate pentice and a smaller two-light casement above. The right side of the wing has a 20th-century boarded door and one three-light casement on both the ground and first floors. The front of the outshut, which runs parallel to the road, has a three-light casement. The left side of this elevation features a small one-light stair window, likely from the 18th century. There is a pitched stone yard in front of the house.

Inside the main block, there are roughly carpentered beams with 20th-century joists, and the fireplace is partially blocked. A timber winder stair leads to the first floor, where substantial straight timbers of the principal rafters suggest a 17th or 18th-century A-frame roof construction. The wing's interior is plain, with most internal carpentry renewed in the last ten years, and the fireplace is blocked. An early 1930s photograph shows that the external openings have remained unaltered since that time.