Brooklyn And Anfield Cottage Garden Wall And Outhouse Adjoining To Rear

A pair of houses, Brooklyn and Anfield Cottage, were built in the 1870s for the Winn Estate. They are accompanied by a garden wall and a rear outhouse. The houses and outhouse are constructed from dressed limestone with red brick dressings and yellow brick details, and feature pantile roofs. The garden wall is of red brick.

The houses are arranged in a “T” shape, with a parlour at the front, a side entrance porch and staircase, a kitchen and pantry at the rear. A projecting, two-story, two-bay twin-gabled wing faces the front, with flanking porches on the side elevations. Features include a chamfered plinth and raised quoins. The ground floor has two three-light casement windows, and the first floor has similar, smaller windows. All windows have wooden mullions and glazing bars set in raised brick surrounds with painted sills and rubbed-brick cambered arches. A three-course stepped and cogged brick cornice runs along the centre and sides, continuing as raking cornices to form broken pediments over twin half-hipped gables with overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards. A large central brick stack is topped with a stepped and cogged yellow brick cornice and eight square-section corniced pots. The side elevations have lean-to porches supported by corbelled timber brackets, boarded doors with three vertical battens beneath two-pane overlights, and single two-light ground-floor windows. The first floor has three-course stepped and cogged brick bands and three-light windows, mirroring the front facade.

The rear garden wall connects to a single-storey outhouse with a plinth, quoins, boarded doors, cogged brick eaves, and raking cornices to half-hipped gables, similar to the houses. The structures are representative of a series built in the village for Rowland Winn of Nostell, later Lord St Oswald, based on plans published by the Salopian Society. The buildings are included on the list for their group value.