Pair Of Houses At Tr 021 627

This pair of houses, built around the 1870s, is a semi-detached structure made of massed concrete. The two-storey buildings feature a cornice above a flat roof and a central chimney stack. The front has a regular arrangement of windows, with four glazing bar sashes on the first floor and two on the ground floor, along with a panelled door on the right and a blocked doorway on the left. At the rear, there are single-storey service wings that include glazing bar sashes and boarded doors. Inside, the houses boast good cast iron fireplaces with moulded and enriched Neo-Classical style surrounds, along with simple moulded details in other areas. The sash windows are well-finished and have a moulded design. These houses are an unusually early example of flat-roofed, concrete construction in small domestic buildings and were possibly originally built as Coastguard cottages, as they appear on maps from the 1890s Ordnance Survey.