2 and 3, Chaplands Cottages

Chaplands Cottages, consisting of Nos. 2 and 3, is a cottage that was likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a probable later addition from the 18th century. There have been some minor alterations in the 19th century and internal changes in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered cob and has a thatched roof, which is hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left. At the rear, there is a rendered outshut with a lean-to roof made of Welsh slate. The cottage features a rendered lateral stack at the rear of the left-hand end, a gault brick axial stack off-centre to the right, and a red brick end stack to the right.

The plan consists of three rooms and is oriented at right angles to the road, facing southwest. Originally, it was probably a two-room cottage on the left, with a larger principal room (hall) to the left that had an external lateral stack at the rear, and a smaller room to the right which may have initially been unheated. A probable later 18th-century addition to the right is likely a one-room plan with an integral end stack and an entrance at the front. There is a continuous outshut at the rear, likely added in the 19th century. Late 20th-century internal alterations included the removal of the dividing wall between the central and left-hand ground floor rooms. The building has two storeys, with the outshut being one storey.

The exterior features an asymmetrical front with three windows, which include late 19th-century or early 20th-century two-light wooden casements. There are doorways that are off-centre to the left and positioned between the first and second windows from the right, both fitted with late 20th-century six-panelled doors. The left-hand end wall has late 19th-century or early 20th-century two-light wooden casements on both the first and ground floors.

During a survey in December 1987, few early features were visible in the ground-floor rooms, while the first-floor rooms and roof space were not inspected.