7, Fore Street

This is an early 19th century house and former coachman's cottage with a coach house, located in Crowan. The front is built of coursed dressed granite with granite sills, lintels, and archstones. It has scantle slate roofs with brick chimneys positioned over the gables of the house and one axial brick chimney towards the right side of the cottage.

The building originally comprised a double-depth house to the left and a shallower-depth cottage. The house’s plan features two equal front rooms flanking a central passage, which likely led to a central staircase between two rear service rooms. The cottage originally had one ground floor room with a cross passage on the left (now integrated into the room), and wide carriage doorways on either side. Around the early 20th century, the stone walling above the right-hand carriage doorway was removed to insert a larger window. The street slopes downwards to the left.

The building is two storeys high and has an overall street frontage of six windows. The house has a symmetrical three-window front, while the cottage presents a slightly irregular three-window front. The house features a wide central doorway with a panelled door and reveals. The windows are 12-pane horned sashes. The cottage has two wide, elliptically arch-headed carriage doorways with monolith archstones meeting a keystone, each doorway fitted with a ledged door (wide on the left, narrower wicket door on the right). A window is situated between the two doorways, originally the cottage’s entrance doorway.

First-floor windows are positioned above the carriage doorways and over the original ground-floor window. Most windows have original 12-pane hornless sashes, except for the first-floor window on the right, which is a tripartite horned sash in an enlarged opening. The house on the right-hand side is a later addition and replaces the original end wall of the cottage. It is possible this cottage was originally two separate cottages, each with a carriage entrance, extending further to the right.

The interior has not been inspected. This is a noteworthy example of domestic, carriage, and stabling accommodation within a village setting.