Jessamine Cottage, Piers And Railings

Jessamine Cottage is an 18th-century house located on South Street in Birming. The house is constructed of coursed galleted stone with white brick dressings to the ground floor, and the first floor is rendered. It has a plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high, with an attic and cellar, and sits on a galleted stone plinth. It features a boxed wooden eaves cornice, gabled ends with projecting red brick stacks, and three hipped dormers. The front of the house has a regular three-window arrangement of 12-pane sashes in open boxes, with a central half-glazed and panelled door sheltered by a flat bracketed hood. A red brick rear lean-to extends from the left gable end. The interior of the house was not inspected.

Extending approximately 10 feet to the right and left of the house are walls and a stone plinth of ground floor construction. These walls have boarded doors at each end and curve towards the road, descending via a ramp to rectangular piers topped with pyramidal copings. An iron garden gate is attached to the left pier, with a former gate on the right. Spear-head railings are set on a low stone plinth across the front of the house between the gateways, continuing along a wall to the right of the house.