Most Southern Pair Of Cottages, North Of Corner Of Rushmere Lane

The most southern pair of cottages, located north of the corner of Rushmere Lane, were built around 1875 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. These cottages feature a handed design with a brown brick lower storey and a white rendered upper storey, which includes floral pargetted panels beneath the windows and at the tops of the paired dormer gables on the front. The cottages have a red tile hipped roof with a central chimney made of shaped brickwork. Each cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has one window. There is an arched timber-framed porch on the left under a catslide roof, while a similar side porch is located on the right. The lower storey has small-pane iron casements set under camber-arches, and the upper storey features windows in timber surrounds that project from the wall. The doors are boarded. Along with Clements Cottages on Middle Lane and Nos. 1 to 4 Rushmere Lane, this pair represents an early example of the Free Style in Cheshire.