505-511 AND 511A, MAIN ROAD

Nos. 505-511 and 511A on Main Road in Dovercourt is a terrace of five cottages dating from the early 16th century and the 19th century. The cottages are timber-framed with a rendered brick front and exposed brick on the west side. They feature a gambrel roof covered with clay plain tiles and stand two stories tall, with three brick chimney stacks, one located on the gable end.

On the exterior, the first floor has six small square windows, three of which have six square panes and are deeply recessed, while the others are two-light casements with a cross glazing pattern. The ground floor has five large recessed windows with 16 panes and top-hung night vents. There are three open gabled porches with machine-made clay plain tile roofs, ornamental raking brackets, and foliated spandrels. The doors are plain 20th-century boarded doors with strap hinges.

Inside, the cottages boast a high-quality early 16th-century timber frame, featuring jowled posts, a chamfered and stopped spine beam, bridging joists, and cranked partition wall bracing. The front of the building does not have a jetty. No. 505 is a later extension and may have been a former public building.