Chinkell Cottage

Chinkell Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of squared, coursed lias stone, featuring some dressed stone details, and has a thatched roof. The south gable has stone coping and moulded kneelers, and there are two brick stacks at the gable ends. The building is single storey with an attic, and the front has three gabled dormers: a large central dormer with a brick ridge stack and two smaller dormers on either side, which are said to have been added in 1902. At the rear, there is a stone gabled dormer and an eyebrow dormer. The eaves level has been raised, and the front and rear walls have been heightened by several courses.

The house has a three-unit plan with an entry on the left side of the right-hand unit, and there is evidence of a second doorway into the left-hand unit. The windows are irregularly arranged, featuring two and three-light timber casements with leadlights, all under concrete lintels that have replaced timber, except for a two-light stone mullioned casement with an ovolo moulded frame located in the central bay. There is a similar stone mullioned window on each floor of the south gable end wall, which is now blocked. A single light stone framed inglenook window is found at the north end of the front, and the rear has irregular one or two-light wood framed casements under timber lintels.

Internally, the ground floor features chamfered bridging beams with moulded stops in all rooms. The north room has an inglenook fireplace with a timber bressummer and a bread oven, while the south room has a stone framed fireplace with moulded jambs and an arch, along with a salt cupboard to the right. The south attic room shows chamfered principal rafters and collar ties as exposed truss members, along with a chamfered purlin and straight wind braces, indicating that it was the principal upper chamber. The roof framing is exposed in other attic rooms. There are brick single storey extensions at the north and south ends of the house, which are not of special interest. It is said that the house may have originally contained two or three cottages, but it was likely a single dwelling in the 17th century.