53 And 54, The Street

A pair of attached cottages, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, are situated on The Street. The cottages have a timber frame with a painted brick facade and rendered, roughcast walls. The roof is tiled with handmade red tiles. The cottages form a single-span range facing southwest, with two chimney stacks marking the original central axis. There are two 19th-century rear extensions constructed of painted brick and featuring a catslide roof. A further rear extension exists at number 53, dating from the 19th or early 20th century. The cottages are one storey high with attics. Number 53 has three 19th-century horizontal sash windows with twelve panes each, and two 20th-century casement windows in gabled dormers. It is accessed by a 20th-century door. Number 54 has three similar sash windows, plus two more in gabled dormers, and a plain boarded door. Each door and ground-floor window sits within a recess with a two-centred arch. A segmental archway allows passage through at the left end of the building. The roof is gambrel shaped. At the rear, remnants of original plasterwork, patterned with sawtooth indentations, remain under a canopy between the rear extensions.