Edge End

A row of cottages and a former barn, dating from the mid-18th century with significant later additions and alterations. The buildings are constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone with a graduated stone slate roof. Originally ten bays, with one bay added in 1946 (part of No. 5) and two bays inserted in the former barn (part of No. 1) around 1985. The cottages are two storeys high, with two small 20th-century lean-to extensions to the rear. Bay 1 (the left-hand bay) is an addition from 1946; the remaining bays have nine ground floor windows and eight first-floor windows, ranging from two to twelve lights, featuring recessed cavetto-moulded stone mullions, mainly reused from a previous building. There are four 20th-century porches, a blocked door, and a door with a square-cut surround. The earliest section, No. 1, is a laithe-house incorporating a former barn that has been converted into living accommodation, with two matching front windows and a porch, and a segmental-headed glazed central entry to the rear. Various recessed flat-faced mullion windows are located at the rear. Three chimney stacks, all of 20th-century date, are present. Internally, the cottages are largely modernised; No. 5 retains the original end wall of the terrace. Despite the alterations, the terrace remains largely complete and characteristic. The former barn includes a dressed winnowing door, a shippon door, and a segmental-headed cart entry to the rear.