Magnolia Cottage

Magnolia Cottage is a terrace of four estate cottages built in the mid-19th century for the Brancepeth Estate. The cottages are constructed of squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, and have a graduated green slate roof and rendered stone chimney stacks. Designed in the Tudor style, the cottages present a symmetrical frontage. The four-bay central section is flanked by wide, projecting, cross-gabled bays, which in turn are set back from narrow outer bays. Vertical-ribbed doors with moulded surrounds and shouldered heads are located in the right-hand end bay (for No. 13), the left-hand end bay (for No. 16), and the end bays of the central block (for Nos. 14 and 15). The stone-mullioned windows are double-chamfered and have side-hung iron casements with latticed glazing, with three lights on the ground floor and two above. Gabled half-dormers are found in the central block. The cross-gabled bays, steeply-pitched main roof, and overhanging eaves and verges all feature finials and pierced bargeboards. The roof is punctuated by three groups of ridge chimneys with tall, clustered diagonal stacks. 20th-century rear additions are not of significant architectural interest.