Fairview Cottages

Fairview Cottages is a row of four cottages located on Back Road, Sandhurst. The cottages were built in the late 18th or early 19th century and originally served as a workhouse. Numbers 1 and 2 were built slightly earlier than numbers 3 and 4, which is evident because the attic window of the earlier pair clears the roof of the later pair. Numbers 1 and 2 are timber-framed with the ground floor clad in red brick in a Flemish bond pattern with grey headers. The first floor is weatherboarded. They have a gambrel roof covered in old tiles, with an external brick stack. A catslide roof extends to the rear, finished in slate. The cottages have two storeys and three windows each. The windows are C19 casements, and the doorcases have four curved panels and flat hoods supported by brackets. Numbers 3 and 4 are of a higher elevation and are constructed of red brick with grey headers in the ground floor and weatherboarding on the first floor. They feature a gambrel roof covered in old tiles with end stacks. These cottages have two storeys and two windows each. The C20 casement windows are fitted within brick voussoirs, which are diagonally placed. The doorcases feature four round-headed panels and have doors and late gabled weather hoods. A C19 pair of privies with a gabled roof are attached to the side elevation. A rear right-hand window has a bottom-opening casement. The interiors contain open fireplaces.