Sells Close Cottages

These are three cottages, originally a single house, dating from the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house has a timber frame, now rendered and clad in weatherboarding. It has a steeply pitched tiled roof. The building was originally designed with a three-room lobby entry plan. It is two storeys high with an attic. The front has four windows. The ground floor weatherboarding is moulded; the first floor is rendered with traces of decorative panelled plasterwork. The ground floor has three recessed entrances with panelled doors: the door to No. 1 has two raised panels, the door to No. 2 has four panels, and the door to No. 3 has six panels, the top four being raised and fielded. To the centre and left are three-light casement windows with small panes within flush frames, and to the right is a horizontal sliding sash window, all with hood boards. The first floor has two three-light casement windows to the left, an early two-light iron-framed casement window with leaded panes above the original entrance, and a larger 19th-century two-light casement window with a moulded frame to the right. A rebuilt axial ridge stack forms a lobby with an entrance to No. 3. A left-end external stack has offsets, exposed plates, and purlins. The right end has a half-hip roof with an entrance, a small first-floor window, and a latticed attic casement, also with exposed plates. An early lean-to outshut has been added to the rear right. The rear windows are a mix of casement types. Inside No. 1, a stop-chamfered axial bearer is present; the interiors of Nos. 2 and 3 were not inspected. Attached to the left end, set back, is a 19th-century lower two-storey gabled outshut with a two-light casement on the return.