Chapel Cross

Chapel Cross is a former wayside chapel that has been converted into a cottage. It has origins dating back to the 13th century, with later modifications and additions. The building is constructed from local grey lias and Cary stone, featuring banded Ham stone dressings, with some additions made from Cary stone rubble. It has a thatched roof with coped gables and a stone chimney stack.

The north elevation is part single and part two storey, consisting of three bays. The first bay contains a single-light window with a cinquefoil cusped design and a squared head, although the former square label has been removed. The second bay features a smaller trefoil cusped single-light window set lower, also without a label. Between these windows is a boarded studded door set in a plain three-centre archway. The third bay is an extension likely added in the 18th century, which has a two-light horizontal bar casement window beneath a timber lintel, and an earlier two-light casement window above, with the left light containing rectangular leaded panes. There is also a plain lean-to with a clay pantiled roof against the west gable.

The east gable has a chamfered plinth and a cross finial on a gabletted cross at the coping. It features a 20th-century copy of a cinquefoil cusped window with a false label to match the one on the north side, as well as a squint in the north-east corner. The south elevation mirrors the north with a similar window in the third bay, although its head has been restored. The second bay window is a 20th-century copy of the one opposite on the north wall, while the first bay of the extension has two horizontal bar casements and a boarded door in the west gable lean-to.

Inside, the former chapel retains a moulded rib and plaster panel ceiling, with plastered walls that show traces of medieval paintings on the east wall. In the south-east corner, there is a recess that may indicate a former doorway. All windows have four-centred rere-arches. At the west end, there is a 20th-century gallery and staircase, along with a moulded pointed arched doorway in the west wall, though the base of the arch has been damaged. The 18th-century section features an exposed timber ceiling at ground floor level and a partly reconstructed fireplace in the west gable. The building was formerly listed as two properties but now functions as a single cottage.