Eastern Cottage Western Cottage

ST EVE PENGRUGLA SW 94 NE 1/39 Western Cottage and Eastern Cottage - GV II

Pair of attached houses. Circa late C18 - early C19, with some C20 alterations and additions. Slatestone rubble with brick dressings. Partly rendered and partly slate-hung with rag slates. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles. Axial stack with brick shaft, end stack to right with rendered shaft; there would have been a stack at the left end, now removed. Plan: Pair of attached houses, with Western Cottage to left and Eastern Cottage to right. Each house is of 2-room plan, with central entrances. The inner rooms are heated from back-to-back fireplaces from the axial stack, with the outer rooms heated from end stacks. There is a small single storey outshut at each end, probably of later C19. Exterior: 2 storeys; overall a symmetrical 4-window front, with each house having a symmetrical 2-window front. All windows are C20 2-light 8-pane casements with cambered stone arches and keystones, at ground and first floor to left and right of the doorway. Western Cottage, to left, has central C20 half-glazed door with gabled hood on wooden posts. Eastern Cottage, to right, has central C20 4-panelled door with gabled hood on brackets. To end left there is a single storey outshut with hipped roof, C20 2-light 6-pane casement and C20 half-glazed door. To end right there is a single storey outhouse, with half-hipped roof, rendered, with C20 door and 6-pane window. At the rear, Western Cottage is rendered, with C20 2-light 8-pane casements at first floor and one at ground floor to right. The rear of Eastern Cottage is slate-hung with rag slates; at ground floor to left a C20 2-light 8-pane casement, two similar 2-light casements at first floor. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW9949647047