Listing Text

BEAFORD EXETER ROAD (south-west side),
SS 5514 Beaford

20/56 Nos. 2 and 3, Chapland's Cottages
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GV II

Pair of cottages, now one. Probably late C17 or early C18, with probably later C18
addition. Some minor C19 alterations and late C20 internal alterations. Rendered
cob with thatched roof, hipped to right and half-hipped to left. Rendered outshut at
rear with lean-to Welsh-slate roof. Rendered lateral stack to rear of left-hand end
with chamfered offset, gault-brick axial stack off-centre to right, and red-brick end
stack to right.
Plan: Three-room plan, sited at right angles to road (facing south-west). Probably
formerly 2-room cottage to left consisting of larger principal room (hall) to left
with external lateral stack to rear, and smaller room to right with end stack
(perhaps initially unheated). Probable later C18 one-room plan addition (probably
separate cottage) to right with integral end stack and entrance to front.
Continuous outshut at rear, probably a C19 addition. C20 internal alterations
included removal of dividing wall between central and left-hand ground-floor room.
Two storeys with one-storey outshut.
Exterior: Asymmetrical 3-window front; late C19 or early C20 two-light wooden
casements. Doorways off-centre to left and between first and second windows from
right, both with late C20 six-panelled doors. Left-hand end wall with first-and
ground-floor late C19 or early C20 two-light wooden casements.
Interior: Few early features visible in ground-floor rooms at time of survey
(December 1987). First-floor rooms and roofspace not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS5553614837