New Row Cottages

A range of twelve brick cottages dating to the early 1830s, located in Dawley Horsehay. The cottages have a plain tile roof and chimney stacks at the ridge, with a molded brick eaves cornice. Each cottage is two storeys high and has two windows with wooden casements under rectangular dripmoulds. A central plain door is present in each cottage, with some doorheads featuring painted ornamental keystones, which may be cast-iron. Later porches have been added to some of the cottages. Originally known as ‘Upper Row,’ the cottages were built as “better class cottages” than the nearby ‘Old Row,’ intended to house the principal workmen of the Horsehay Ironworks, which was owned by the Coalbrookdale Company. They are situated alongside the furnace pool, known as Horsehay Pool.