1, Chaplands Cottages

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SS 55 14 21/55

BEAFORD Chaplands Cottages No.1

(Formerly listed as No. 1, Chapland's Cottages, EXETER ROAD)

GV II Cottage. Late C17 or early C18, with minor later C18 additions. Rendered cob with hipped thatched roof. Rendered additions with corrugated-iron lean-to roofs. Squared and coursed stone end stack to left with C19 brick top stage.

Plan: two-room plan, sited at right angles to road (facing south-east). Principal larger room (hall) to left with external end stack to left and smaller unheated room to right. Roughly central entrance (at right-hand end of hall) with projecting porch to front. Probably later C18 or C19 one storey lean-to outshut to left-hand end and continuous outshut at rear. Two storeys with one-storey outshuts.

Exterior: symmetrical two window front; C19 small-paned two-light wooden casements to left, first floor late C20 one-light wooden casement to right and ground-floor late C20 one-light window to right. Roughly central porch has raking roof (under projecting eaves) with wide doorway. C20 half-glazed door. Left-hand end stack with chamfered offsets to sides and string course with chamfered offsets to brick top stage above. Left-hand lean-to addition has boarded door to front. Ground floor four-pane window to right-hand end of house.

Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS5554414844