The Retreat

The Retreat is a pair of attached cottages built around the 1830s. They feature rendered cob walls and a hipped roof made of Welsh slate, with a central brick axial stack. The cottages are rectangular in shape, each having a two-room layout. The central rooms are heated by back-to-back fireplaces in the axial stack, while the smaller end rooms are unheated and have winder stairs at the front.

The exterior is two storeys tall and almost symmetrical, with a two-window south front. The windows are centrally located, with doorways on either side that have plank doors and simple rendered porches topped with open gabled slate roofs. The windows are 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars; the ones on the right have a mullion offset to the right, and there are rendered brick cills. A two-light casement is also present on the left end wall, and there is an outbuilding attached to the right end.

Inside, the cottages retain their 19th-century joinery, including plank doors and winder stairs, along with chamfered cross-beams that have run-out stops.