61,63 AND 65, CHURCH STREET

This is a row of three houses on Church Street, Davenham. The house on the left was built in 1935, as indicated by the datestone "S L A 1935". The two cottages to the right date from the mid- to late 17th century.

The left-hand cottage is built with English garden wall bond brickwork. The cottage to the right is timber-framed with brick infill. The central cottage is rendered with pebble dash, but likely has a timber-frame structure similar to its neighbour. All three have slate roofs.

The left-hand cottage is roughly symmetrical, with three bays. It has bands of two bricks in depth separating the floors and above the first floor. A 20th-century gabled porch with a half-glazed door is slightly to the right of centre. There are two-light 20th-century windows on either side of the ground and first floors. A blank panel above the upper band contains a datestone, also with a wedge-shaped head and projecting keystone, set within a rubbed brick surround. Above this panel, a sunken area features a small pediment constructed of stretchers, flush with the main wall. The central cottage is slightly recessed. Its rendered walls feature a 19th-century doorway within a 20th-century porch. There are three-light 20th-century casement windows to the right of the doorway, and a smaller three-light window acting as a mezzanine. Two three-light 20th-century casement windows are on the first floor. The right-hand cottage has exposed timber framing in a projecting plinth of 5 cells by 4 cells; the top row of uprights appears to be a later addition, likely from 1735, when the left-hand cottage was built and the roof height of the right-hand cottage was raised. It has a three-light 20th-century ground-floor casement window. The right-hand reveal displays 6 cells by 3 cells of timber framing, with an imposed 20th-century gabled porch to the right and a three-light cambered-headed casement window to the left. Similar three-light and two-light windows are on the first floor. Original principals, now redundant, are located above.