The Duchess Cottage, Trentham Gardens

The Duchess Cottage, built around 1841 in Trentham Gardens, is a charming building primarily constructed of brick, which is covered in render and paint to give it a timber-framed appearance. It features a brick plinth with a chamfered stone top and chimneys made of brick and stone. The cottage has a modern tiled roof and timber doors.

The layout of the cottage is cross-shaped, with a porch to the north and a bay to the south, surrounding a rectangular main room. The south-west façade is accessed by a flight of steps and features a gable end with a four-light casement window and two additional sections above. This gable end is adorned with decorative eaves and imitation timber-framing.

To the north, the porch is elevated on three stone steps and has decorative eaves and a pinnacle. The external wall of the porch showcases an open decorative pattern. At the rear, the pitch of the roof steps down, with the higher section accommodating the chimneys. The north-east façade has a central timber door flanked by casement windows, with two additional windows above, reflecting the design of the opposite façade. On the south-west façade, there is a single projecting bay that includes a two-light window, with the eaves and pinnacle of this bay matching those of the porch.