86, Freehold Street

This is an 18th-century cottage, with 20th-century additions, located on Freehold Street. The exterior is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels, and it is topped with a thatched roof featuring a brick gable stack. The cottage follows a single-unit plan. It has two storeys and a two-window front. The first floor has two-light casement windows. The ground floor features two larger, renewed casement windows, and a 20th-century porch housing the doorway on the extreme right. The central opening likely represents the original doorway location. A stack is visible on the left gable wall, which is partially obscured by a single-storey 20th-century extension. Inside, the bedroom ceilings are partly formed by the plastered underside of the thatch. The cottage is part of a group of similar thatched cottages situated at the upper end of Freehold Street, alongside numbers 80, 93, and 105.