Kilters

Kilters is a row of four cottages, now comprising three units, along with an adjoining killing house. The oldest cottage, located on the right (east), dates back to the 18th century, while the others were built around the early to mid-19th century. The cottages were constructed by the Gerrans family. The oldest part features painted and some rendered stone rubble and cob, with slate sills and wooden lintels or shallow brick arches. The roofs are at four different levels, with the left (west) side covered in grouted scantle slate, while the middle former pair of cottages has a corrugated asbestos roof and a grouted scantle slate parallel roof at the rear of the left-hand cottage. Brick chimneys are positioned over the gable ends and party walls. The oldest cottage on the right has a corrugated iron roof over thatch, and the killing house, located at the far right (east), has a lower pitched corrugated asbestos roof.

The layout of the row is irregular, consisting of a single-cell cottage on the left (west), a pair of single-cell cottages with later service rooms behind each, and the earliest single-cell cottage on the right, which is attached to the killing house that was remodelled in the 20th century. The cottages are two storeys high. The south front features a one-window cottage on the left with four-pane horned sashes, a pair of one-window cottages with doorways towards the middle and four-panel doors, and the right-hand cottage with an old lattice porch and original 16-pane hornless sashes at both the front and rear. The 18th-century cottage on the right is set back from the others, with its south side acting as the rear, containing only two small ground floor windows, one of which has glazing bars. The north front of this cottage has original 12-pane two-light casements on the ground floor to the left and on the first floor to the far right, along with a doorway featuring a ledged door within a 20th-century lean-to porch. The cob walling remains unpierced and retains its original texture. The north front of the killing house has a wide doorway with a ledged ventilated door and a wide two-light casement to the left. The interior has not been inspected but is said to be little altered. It is reported that the cottages were built by the Gerrans family and were still inhabited by them as of 1985, situated on land with a limited life lease.