Numbers 152-166 Including The Attached And Associated Back Yard Walls

Numbers 152-166, including the attached and associated back yard walls, are a terrace of eight colliery workers' cottages built around 1891-1894, possibly by Brewill & Baily. The cottages are constructed from red brick with some ashlar dressings and feature a Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge cresting and brick ridge stacks. They are two storeys high with attics, showcasing a decorative first floor band and a saw tooth eaves cornice. The cottages are designed as symmetrical pairs, with each pair slightly stepped up the hillside, which is reflected in the roof levels. Each pair has two 3-light casement windows in ashlar surrounds, flanked by doorways that feature ashlar lintels, panelled doors, and overlights. Above, there are two 2-light cross casements under stop-chamfered ashlar lintels, and a pair of gabled dormers with 2-light casements under chamfered ashlar lintels. The casements have small pane glazing. The walls at the rear enclose back yards. These houses are part of the 'Model Village' built by the Bolsover Colliery Company to accommodate its workforce, following progressive Garden Suburb principles of planning and design.