Somerhill Cottages

A row of four cottages dating from the late 19th century, with 20th-century additions. The ground floor is built of Flemish bond red brick with decorative burnt headers, while the timber framing above is clad in red tiles, including bands of scallop-shaped tiles. The building features brick stacks and chimneyshafts, several of which retain original chimneypots, and a red tile roof with bands of scallop tiles.

The cottages were designed as a group, facing north and numbered 1 to 4 from west to east. Each cottage follows a one-room plan with a front doorway, entrance hall, and staircase to one side, and the two end cottages are mirror images of the two central ones. Doorways are positioned towards the ends of the end cottages and towards the centre, side-by-side, for the middle cottages. Axial stacks between numbers 1 and 2, and 3 and 4, serve back-to-back fireplaces.

All four cottages are two storeys high, with attic space in the roof. The front elevation has a symmetrical appearance with four windows, though these are 20th-century casement windows without glazing bars. The original plank doors, with vertical coverstrips, are set within elliptical arched door surrounds. The main roof is gable-ended, incorporating four gabled dormers with original casement windows with glazing bars. The gables have plain bargeboards with pendants.

The interiors show no significant carpentry detail but contain some original joinery.