Crewenna Cottages Rakaia Rakaia, Crewenna Cottages, Adjoining Houses And Former Shop

Crewenna Cottages in Rakaia is a terrace of houses, consisting of a cottage and a pair of cottages, with a shop added to the right-hand cottage. This building dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century. The front is made of dressed coursed granite that resembles ashlar, with dressed granite sills and lintels, while the rest is painted rubble. The roof is made of scantle slate, which is grouted and slurried, and it slopes slightly lower over the integral rear outshuts. Brick chimneys are located over the gable ends and cross party walls, with the left-hand chimneys rendered.

The layout is a double depth plan with shallower rear service rooms in the integral outshut. The left house features two front rooms with a cross passage in between, leading to a likely central stair that connects to the service rooms. The single cottage on the right has one front room and a cross passage. The former pair of cottages, now combined into one house with a shop, originally had one room in the front of each with cross passages towards the middle. The front room of the right-hand cottage was converted into a shop in the late 19th century by removing most of the ground floor wall to insert a double shop front, and the first-floor window was also widened at that time.

At the left end, there is an old weather-boarded lean-to with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a regular five-window range. The left house has a nearly symmetrical two-window front with a doorway slightly to the right of the middle, featuring an original six-panel door. The single cottage has one window front and a doorway with a 20th-century door on the right side. The former pair of cottages has a two-window front with one original doorway left of the middle, which also has an original six-panel door. All windows are late 19th-century six-pane horned sashes in their original openings, except for the right-hand former cottage, which has double shop fronts, a projecting bay window with a 16-pane horned sash and sidelights, an original moulded fascia, a blocked central doorway, and a 20th-century window above. The interior has not been inspected.