1, 2 And 3, The Street

Nos. 1, 2, and 3 The Street are three cottages built in the 18th century. They are constructed from whitewashed brick and topped with black glazed pantiles. The cottages are two storeys high and feature five windows, with the northern bay slightly recessed. Nos. 1 and 2, located to the south, have three ground floor arched headed windows and four first floor straight headed wooden 2-light casements with glazing bars. There is a 20th-century glazed door that has been inserted in place of one of the ground floor windows in No. 2. No. 3, to the north, has a single ground floor arched headed window and a single first floor straight headed wooden 2-light casement with glazing bars. The buildings have a dentil eaves cornice and a hipped roof with ridge stacks at the center and north end. The doors to No. 1 and No. 3 are boarded and located on the returns. The foundations of the first two houses were laid in July 1729, replacing a village in the park, and they were inspired by Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" from 1770. The cottages appear in block plan in Isaac Ware's "Plans of Houghton" from 1735, in the 1750 edition.