Chapel Cottage And Alexanders Cottage

Chapel Cottage and Alexanders Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from around the mid 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. They feature stone rubble and cob walls that are rendered at the front, topped by a gable-ended thatch roof. The left gable end has a brick stack on a rubble base, while the right end has a rendered brick stack. There are also two rendered rubble projecting rear lateral stacks.

Currently, the cottages are arranged as two 2-room plan units, with Chapel Cottage on the left being larger. It may have originally been a single 3-room-and-through-passage plan house, with Alexanders Cottage occupying the lower end on the right, which has been divided into two rooms and includes a rear lateral stack. Chapel Cottage likely consists of the original hall and an inner room, with the hall heated by a fireplace on the rear wall and a newel stair adjacent. The inner room has a fireplace on the end wall and possibly a blocked newel stair behind it. There is a small 19th-century outshut built behind the center of the house.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-to-two window front. Chapel Cottage features 20th-century two-light casements on the first floor, with the two right-hand windows lacking glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two large later 20th-century two-light casements to the left and a 19th-century three-light casement to the right. A 20th-century lean-to open-fronted porch is at the right-hand end, with an early 19th-century six-panel door behind it. The left-hand end wall has a semi-circular projection behind the stack. Alexanders Cottage to the right has late 20th-century PVC two-light casements and a gabled porch with a glazed door. The rear elevation features a stair projection at the center with a 19th-century outshut to its left.

Inside, Chapel Cottage has timber newel stairs behind the right-hand room. The beams have been replaced, and the old fireplaces have been altered. The feet of the principals visible on the first floor may be original but appear quite rough.