Row of three cottages, being to the north end of the building known as Wayside Cottage (which is not incuded in the listing)

A row of three cottages at the north end of a larger building complex, dating from the late 17th to early 19th centuries.

The cottages are constructed of knapped flint with red and red/brown brick and tile dressings. The hipped slate roof is of early 19th-century date, with longitudinal internal brick stacks set forward from the ridge. Internal partitions from the 17th and 18th centuries are of masonry and studwork, while early 19th-century internal studwork partitions and ceilings are infilled with reed and lime plastered. Floors are of brick paviors.

Each cottage has an identical, though mirrored, plan. They are single-cell buildings comprising a main ground floor room heated by a large stack, with a smaller rear room from which a timber stair rises against the party wall. Entrances are at the rear, though the central and southern cottages also have roadside entrances. The building appears to have begun as an earlier two-cell structure with a through passage, probably opening into a hall/kitchen on one side and a parlour on the other, aspiring to a near-symmetrical street frontage with a further bay to the north.

The roadside elevation features long and short quoins of narrow, late 17th and early 18th-century red brick, and a plinth of similar worn, ovolo-moulded brick and tile. The northern bay shows evidence of later addition or alteration; although the plinth continues, a straight joint separates the bays at the rear, where the central bay has brick quoins matching the roadside elevation. The roadside elevation and north return have been patched and repaired using larger, later red brick.

The east elevation entrance, north of the southern bay, appears to cut through the plinth and has a later brick, buttressed surround with a timber lintel and plank door. Ground floor windows beneath segmental arches have three-light metal casements in timber frames, while first-floor windows are of two lights in reduced openings. The window south of the entrance has a wrought iron casement, probably of 18th-century date, with diamond leaded lights fixed to iron saddle bars, an iron handle, and a pair of latches. Other windows are early 19th-century, square-paned, cast iron casements. Above the entrance is evidence of a small blocked window, possibly an oculus. The northern and rear elevations are plainly detailed with red and red/brown brick dressings to openings. Ground floor openings have segmental arches; some surrounds have been altered in vertically laid brick. Windows are similar cast iron casements, except one ground floor window which retains diamond leaded lights. The entrance to the northern cottage breaks through the west wall, subsequently repaired in 20th-century blockwork. The central and southern cottages share a west elevation entrance leading to a small lobby, opposite the roadside entrance. The northern jamb has been repaired externally, though internally it is of worn, early brick. The north elevation has a single window on each floor.

Internally, the original through passage was blocked by a cross wall inserted when the building was converted to cottages, then subsequently altered to create a separate entrance to the main room in the southern cottage. Stacks are built of early, narrow brick except for one flank of each, which is of larger early 19th-century brick. The northern stack is rebuilt at first floor level and curtailed. Each ground floor fireplace has a reeded mantelshelf on moulded brackets. The southern cottage has a large freestanding cast iron stove. The partly-exposed reveal of the late 17th and early 18th-century window opening of the southern cottage is roll-moulded; elsewhere, window openings are rendered. This window has cyma-moulded timber mullions, possibly replaced in the early 19th century; elsewhere, windows have plain chamfered timber mullions. Ground floor rooms have brick paviors; those in the main room of the southern cottage are laid in herringbone pattern. Stairs rise from the rear room of each cottage.

On the first floor, stairs rise to a small lobby against the stack. Each cottage is divided longitudinally, echoing the ground floor plan, though in the northern cottage the partition is set further to the east. All but the southern longitudinal partition and part of the northern transverse partition have been stripped to the studs. Windows are set in deep recessed openings which have been reduced in size internally to accommodate the early 19th-century windows. Ceilings on both floors are of lime-plastered reed. The roof is of softwood, probably larch, and of king-post construction, with curved braces south of the stack and straight braces north of the stack. The uniform construction of the principal roof elements and fittings suggests the cottages were built according to an approved pattern using mass-produced components and materials imported from elsewhere.