Numbers 72-86 Including The Attached And Associated Back Yard Walls

This is a terrace of eight colliery workers' cottages built around 1891-1894, possibly by Brewill & Baily. The cottages are constructed of 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 and include a decorative first-floor band and a sawtooth eaves cornice. The design treats the cottages as symmetrical pairs, with each double 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 have 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 feature small pane glazing. Attached 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.