Board Cottage

Board Cottage is an early 18th-century inn, now a private house, located on Iveston Lane in Consett. The building is constructed of thinly rendered rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, featuring a 20th-century brick porch, a Welsh slate roof with red ridge tiles, and yellow brick chimneys. It has an L-shaped layout, comprising two wide bays on the main façade and a one-storey, one-bay left extension. A central gabled porch features a round brick archway containing a boarded door. The windows have been renewed and consist of two-light designs, some fixed and some casement windows, with tooled flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The left extension has a boarded door set beneath a flat stone lintel. The steeply pitched roof is punctuated by end chimneys, and the return gables have triangular coping stones, indicating evidence of a former cruck-shaped roof and subsequent raising. The rear elevation has throughstones visible below the eaves. A one-storey, one-bay rear wing contains a wide 20th-century window.