Bower Cottages Monday Cottage

A pair of cottages, known as Bower Cottages and Monday Cottage, were built in 1874 by the architect R. Norman Shaw, with F. Birch as the builder. They were altered in the late 20th century. The ground floor is red brick in Flemish bond, using grey bricks as headers. The first floor is tile-hung with cusped tiles. The roof is tiled and half-hipped. The cottages are two bays wide and have half-storeys. Doors are set within pent-roofed side porches; the right-hand porch has a studded board door, and the left-hand porch features a 20th-century glazed internal door. There are two three-light windows on the ground floor, with chamfered sills and heads. The jettied first floor has a pent-roofed dormer with a continuous eight-light window; the central two lights are now blocked. A large central ridge stack features grey headers, and there are three tall arched recesses with tile imposts on each side. The rear of each cottage has a large, late 20th-century, single-storey, flat-roofed extension, which is not considered to be of special interest. A central three-light window rises through the eaves on the first floor. The left return (Monday Cottage) includes a one-light window to the left of centre, with a pent-roofed addition and a further late 20th-century extension (built in 1982) to the rear. A two-light window and a three-light window, both with tile pentices, are also present on the first floor and at the eaves respectively. Shaw also designed the former school and schoolmaster’s house to the southwest. Architectural drawings are held by the Royal Institute of British Architects Library.