Gatehouse Cottages

A pair of cottages, likely dating from the 18th century. The ground floor is built of stretcher bond brick, while the first floor has a timber frame clad in weatherboarding. The roof is covered in peg tiles, with brick stacks.

The cottages face east and are situated as a group with number 3, which is set at a right angle to the south. They are small, two-cell dwellings, with outshuts extending to the rear, and originally heated from end stacks. The interior of number 2 was inspected. It contains a heated room to the south, adjoined by a smaller service room which connects to number 1. The original staircase is located in the rear outshut. A 20th-century addition is present at the rear left (south west) of number 2. It is thought that number 1 may have a similar layout.

The front of the cottages has an almost symmetrical appearance with four windows, and gabled ends. The left-hand end stack (number 2) is large and projects, with tile hanging. Each cottage has a 19th-century plank door, positioned slightly towards the centre of the building, and 1-, 2- and 3-light small-pane timber casement windows, some dating to the 19th and 20th centuries.

Inside number 2, a large open fireplace has a reused timber lintel. There is plain exposed carpentry on the ground and first floor ceilings. The wall framing on the first floor uses slender timbers with plain wall posts, and shows evidence of extensive reuse of old timbers. The staircase in the outshut consists of simple quadrant timber baulks fixed to a ladder frame. The roof was not inspected.