Numbers 1-8 Consecutive With Walls And Linked Outbuildings

Numbers 1 to 8 are a row of aged miners' homes located on Leatherland Road in Shilbottle Village, with foundation stones dated 12th March 1927. The buildings are constructed from orange smooth-faced brick, with some pebbledashing, and feature Welsh slate roofs with orange tile ridges. The cottages are arranged in four pairs, stepping slightly downhill to the south. Each pair is single storey with four bays; the walls are pebbledashed above a shaped sill string. The projecting gabled centre bays have 16-pane sash windows and plain bargeboards, while the flanking bays contain doors with vertical panelling below 6- and 8-pane glazing, along with tripartite small-paned sashes. The buildings have banded centre and end stacks.

The northernmost pair, Nos. 1 and 2, features shaped stone tablets in the gables inscribed with 'HOMES OF REST' and 'NORTHUMBERLAND AGED MINEWORKERS' ASSOCIATION', along with foundation stones laid by C.S. Anderson of Shilbottle and County Councillor T.H. Tully of Amble. The southernmost pair, Nos. 7 and 8, has gable tablets stating 'OPENED BY J.C. AISTON, ESQ DIRECTOR OF THE CWS 30TH JULY 1927' and 'AT EVENTIDE'; No. 8 includes a foundation stone laid by Geo. W. Bartram of Alnwick. The intermediate pairs have raised brick panels in their gables.

Each return of the cottages displays a central projecting stepped stack. The rear features projecting gabled bathroom wings designed in the same style, with 6-pane casement windows. Each house has a back door similar to the front, along with two 8-pane sashes and a small larder window in between. A 1.5 metre-high wall connects the centre of the outbuilding block between each pair of doors, with two boarded doors in each half and a hipped roof, along with boarded hatches at the rear.

These homes hold social and historical interest and remain totally unaltered externally.