Number 12 (Adel Cottage) And Number 10, Garden Wall And Outhouse Adjoining To Rear

Number 12 (Adel Cottage) and Number 10 are a pair of houses accompanied by a garden wall and outhouse to the rear, dating to the 1870s. They were constructed for the Winn Estate. The houses and outhouse are built of dressed limestone with red brick dressings, yellow brick details, and have pantile roofs. The garden wall is also of red brick.

The buildings are arranged in a U-shaped layout. Each house features an entrance hall leading to a central range, with a front parlour and a rear kitchen/pantry in the side wing. The houses are two storeys high, with three windows on the first floor. The central range has a single window and entrances set in the angles, flanked by projecting gabled wings. Features include a chamfered plinth, raised quoins, board doors in chamfered wooden frames, and a continuous porch with a sloping roof supported by corbelled timber brackets. There is a three-light window to the side wings and smaller first-floor windows. The windows have chamfered wooden mullions and glazing bars within raised brick surrounds, painted sills, and rubbed-brick cambered arches, except for the first-floor centre window which has a glazed gable breaking the eaves. A three-course stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice runs along the central section, continuing as raking cornices to the wings and forming broken pediments over the gables with overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards.

The projecting stacks to the left and right returns have quoins, ashlar offsets, brick lozenge panels to the lower sections, brick bands to the upper sections, stepped and cogged brick cornices, and original square-section crested pots (on the left) with four replacement cylindrical pots (on the right). Side walls flanking the stacks feature interlocking brick lozenge panels to the ground floor, a cogged brick band to the first floor, a series of three small lozenge panels to the first floor, and a cogged brick eaves cornice.

The adjoining brick-coped wall separates the gardens and connects to a single-storey outhouse with a plinth, quoins, board doors, cogged brick eaves, and raking cornices similar to the houses.

The group exemplifies a series of houses built in the village for Rowland Winn of Nostell, later Lord St Oswald, based on plans published by the Salopian Society.