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This building is a pair of estate cottages constructed in the 1860s by J Ross for James Roberts West. They are made of brick and feature a tile roof with fishscale bands and a brick cross-axial stack with front and rear diagonal shafts. The cottages are arranged in a T-plan and stand two storeys high with a two-window range.

The exterior includes a plain cornice that runs around the gables, wide eaves and verges, and a pair of gabled projections at the centre. Each end has a segmental-headed entrance with a plank door that has enriched strap hinges, all under a brick labelmould. The segmental-headed windows have weathered sills; the ground floor windows feature 3-light latticed casements beneath brick labelmoulds, while the first-floor windows have 2-light latticed casements. The returns of the projections have single lights under labelmoulds. There is also a single-storey rear wash house.

The interior has not been inspected. These cottages are a good and little-altered example of estate housing, part of a row of seven pairs, most of which have been altered. The design won a prize from the Royal Agricultural Society in 1861, and a copy of the plan, with slight differences, is preserved in the estate papers.