Hope Cottages

These nine cottages form a planned group of two ranges linked together. They were erected in 1843, as indicated by a glazed panel above the entrance door of the corner cottage, which is semi-circular in plan. The cottages are timber-framed and have plastered or roughcast external rendering. They have hipped slate roofs and five rectangular chimneys rising from the ridge. The cottages are two storeys high and each has a two-unit plan with two heated rooms and a rear staircase to the first floor. The front doors are boarded, with the exception of numbers 3 and 5, which have 20th-century replacements; each door has a small, bracketed hood above it. There are ten casement windows on each of the ground and first floors. Each cottage has a woodshed and privy, which enclose a communal courtyard. The plot to the east of the cottages was originally divided into nine strips, or allotments, separated by narrow baulks. The cottages were restored in 1979.