1 2, Durham Road

This listing describes a pair of estate cottages located at 1 and 2 Durham Road, built in the mid-19th century for the Brancepeth Estate. The cottages are constructed from squared sandstone in narrow courses, featuring ashlar dressings and a fishscale Welsh slate roof. They are designed in a Tudor style and consist of one storey plus an attic. Each cottage has two bays, with No. 1 on the left.

The buildings have flush quoins and a chamfered plinth. They feature end vertical-panelled doors with narrow overlights, set in chamfered surrounds beneath hoodmoulds. The windows are stone-mullioned, with No. 1 showcasing a square bay window with three lights under a hipped roof on the ground floor, along with a gabled dormer that has a two-light window under a hoodmould. No. 2 has a wide projecting gabled left bay that includes a canted bay window under a hipped roof on the ground floor and a two-light window under a hoodmould above.

Additional architectural details include stone eaves brackets, a steeply-pitched roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers, and a central transverse chimney with a cornice and three diagonal stacks. There is a 1986 addition at the rear of No. 1 that is not of interest. Nos. 1 and 2 are designed to form a symmetrical pair with Nos. 3 and 4 nearby.