Jasmine Cottage

Jasmine Cottage is part of a row of four dwellings, likely dating to the early 18th century or before. The properties were refaced and partly rebuilt around 1875 by John Douglas for Rowland Egerton Warburton. The buildings are constructed of brown brick in an English garden wall bond, with clay tile roofs. They are arranged asymmetrically, with the end properties being houses and the two central ones being cottages.

No. 54 (the rightmost property) has a cross-gable design with a lower wing of one room to the left. The roofline steps down towards Nos. 55 and 56, each of one room and featuring gabled half-dormers. No. 55 incorporates a projecting porch combined with a parlour bay window. No. 57 possesses a large projecting cross gable and a smaller gable set flush with the main frontage.

The properties have 12-panel doors, with those to Nos. 54 and 55 being partly glazed. The windows are brick-mullioned, with 5, 4, 3, and 2 lights, containing small leaded panes, moulded bands, and brown brick diapering. The gables and dormers feature plaster lozenge panels, and there are shaped brick lateral and ridge chimneys. The windows are protected by relieving arches, and the doors have gauged brick arches.

The interior of No. 57 is of particular interest, displaying old brickwork including an unbroken vertical joint at the rear. A parlour door with six fielded panels is accentuated by a heavy carved architrave of early Georgian design. Further features include a cambered arch between the hall and stair, a broad-board cellar door, bedroom doors of six fielded panels, HL hinges, broad-board attic doors, and oak purlins. The interior of Nos. 55 and 56 was not inspected. No. 54 has no particularly noteworthy interior features.

The design of the row is described as confident and advanced, and was illustrated and admired by T. Raffles Davison in The British Architect in December 1884. The arrangement of the buildings is as shown on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition Survey, dated 1875.