1-6, BIG YARD

This is a range of five cottages, originally barns, located on Old Hunstanton Road in Old Hunstanton. They were built in the 17th and 18th centuries, with some 19th-century details. The cottages are primarily constructed of carstone on the west side and chalk lump on the east, with brick dressings and roofs that are either slated or pantiled. The buildings are two storeys high.

No. 1, at the western end, features a ground floor door and a two-light casement window on both the ground and first floors. The west gable return is made of brick rubble, knapped and galleted coursed flint, with carstone chequer work, filled-in brick ventilation holes, and a heightened gable. Nos. 2 and 3 each have four ground floor openings, including a brick-arched 20th-century door and a 20th-century casement window for No. 2, while No. 3 has a 19th-century two-light casement. Both cottages have a single two-light casement window on the first floor. No. 2 also has a brick and pantiled lean-to at right angles and a 20th-century porch made from temporary materials. There is a brick-coped parapet ridge and stack on the party wall with No. 1.

The three cottages to the east may have been built as one or two barns. No. 4 and No. 5 each have a ground floor two-light casement window, a 19th-century door with two glazed lights, and a single casement window on the first floor. No. 5 is built into a former brick-dressed cart entrance, which is now infilled with carstone. No. 6, the easternmost cottage, has two arched-headed ground floor openings, a central 20th-century glazed door, and two first floor two-light casements. Nos. 4 to 6 have a steeply pitched pantiled roof with three stacks and a coped brick parapet on the east side.