St Albans Cottages

St Albans Cottages is a pair of houses, originally four houses, built in the mid to late 18th century, likely for the Carter Estate. They feature early 19th-century carved arms for the Duke of St Albans and underwent alterations around 1950. The cottages are constructed from squared limestone with ashlar dressings and have a pantile roof.

The layout consists of four rooms with single-room outshuts set back on the left and right sides. The buildings are two storeys high and have five bays, arranged symmetrically. The three central bays project slightly and include two inserted 20th-century glazed doors on the left and right, with a pair of inserted 20th-century casements in between. The side bays have similar single casements. Flat arches are visible above the original openings in the central bays, and there is a first-floor band.

On the first floor, there are four inserted 20th-century casements and a single original blind central opening with an ashlar sill beneath a flat arch. The pediment features an ashlar band and a coved raking cornice. In the tympanum, there is a large painted carved ashlar coat of arms for the Duchy of St Albans, which includes a shield and supporting scrolls with a crested helm in a recessed panel. The roof is hipped, with a central stack and 20th-century rebuilt end stacks. The cottages may have originally been built as almshouses. Drawings by C Nattes from 1795 are part of the Banks Collection at Lincoln City Library.