Bridge And Creek Cottage

Bridge and Creek Cottage consists of two small adjoining houses built around the early 19th century. The walls are made of shale rubble, with the left-hand house (Bridge) painted and featuring dressed granite steps, jambs, sills, and lintels, as well as shallow brick arches over the first-floor openings. The roof is made of scantle slate with gable ends and a tall brick chimney located over the cross party wall. Each house has a two-room layout with a nearly central cross passage or entrance vestibule and is partly built into the bank at the rear. There is a later 19th-century addition to the left-hand house, which has a wider frontage and a blind extension that may have served as a store. The overall west front has four windows that are slightly irregular. The doorways are roughly in the middle of each two-window front, with Bridge featuring an original four-panel door that has been later top-glazed, while Creek Cottage has a 20th-century door and early 20th-century two-light casements. The interior has not been inspected. The cottages are prominently situated at the head of the creek and are part of a relatively unaltered group of houses.