1, Chaplands Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage.
1, Chaplands Cottages
- WRENN ID
- small-grate-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1, Chaplands Cottages, Beaford, EX19 8LJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 555 148
- Coordinates
- 50.91492, -4.05634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 Chaplands Cottages is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with some minor additions from the late 18th century. It is constructed of rendered cob and features a hipped thatched roof, along with rendered additions that have corrugated-iron lean-to roofs. There is a squared and coursed stone end stack on the left, topped with a 19th-century brick stage.
The cottage has a two-room plan, positioned at right angles to the road and facing southeast. The larger room, or hall, is located to the left and has an external end stack, while a smaller unheated room is to the right. The entrance is roughly central, located at the right-hand end of the hall, and features a projecting porch at the front. There is likely a later 18th or 19th-century one-storey lean-to outshut on the left end and a continuous outshut at the rear. The building is two storeys tall, with one-storey outshuts.
The exterior has a symmetrical two-window front. To the left, there are 19th-century small-paned two-light wooden casements, while the first floor has a late 20th-century one-light wooden casement to the right, and the ground floor also has a late 20th-century one-light window. The porch, which is roughly central, has a raking roof under projecting eaves and a wide doorway with a 20th-century half-glazed door. The left-hand end stack features chamfered offsets on the sides and a string course with chamfered offsets leading to the brick top stage above. The left-hand lean-to addition has a boarded door at the front, and there is a ground floor four-pane window at the right-hand end of the house. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
1, Chaplands Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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