Lower Town

The building is a house, originally dating to the late 17th century, and later extended and subdivided into four cottages. It is constructed of roughly coursed slate-stone, rendered and painted, with slate roofs. The roof to number 2 is half-hipped, and the roof to number 4 has ceramic cresting.

The original core is a three-bay centre section, aligned north-south, with extensions to both the left and right. Number 2 is a former agricultural building, projecting at a right angle to the west of number 3, which is itself a northern extension of number 4.

Number 4 has early 20th-century casement windows directly below the eaves to the central section, featuring pigeon nesting holes and ledges. Similar casements are found to the left and right of a wide gabled porch with outer stable doors. The right extension has segmental-headed casements on the first floor, and one below the porch’s stable door. Both porches incorporate inner four-panel doors.

There is a ridge stack at the join between the sections, an external end stack to the right, a two-storey lean-to abutting the right-hand stack, and an external lateral stack to the rear on the left, all rendered. A two-storey catslide outshut extends to the rear.

Number 3 has a recessed boarded door to the left and a 19th-century segmental-headed casement to the right, alongside a similar casement to a flat-roofed dormer breaking the eaves. The northward continuation, which forms part of number 1, has 19th-century casements to the rear and end stacks, with a north stack featuring slate dripstones.

Number 2 has late 20th-century plastic casements to the lower right and on both floors to the left of the main range, with a small 16-paned glazing-bar sash window to the upper right. A fixed-light staircase window is situated between these. The lower section to the right has a plastic casement on the ground floor and a small 19th-century casement directly below the eaves. An external end stack is present to the left, and a ridge stack marks the junction between sections, both rendered.

The upper part of number 4 contains chamfered cross beams and a fireplace with a granite lintel to the ridge stack. A 18th-century dog-leg staircase features turned balusters, a moulded handrail and square newels. A section of the extension contains a fireplace with a clom oven to the end stack. The original section has a 17th-century collar truss roof, raised in the 19th century. Number 2 also has a collar truss roof in three bays, with half bays for the hipped ends. A late 19th-century addition running at right angles to the north of number 2 (part of number 1) is not of special architectural interest.