24, 25, 26 AND 27, DORCHESTER ROAD

This is a row of four estate cottages, dated 1868, as shown on a stone panel located centrally on the ground floor. The cottages are constructed of rock-faced masonry with dressings of Ham stone, and have clay tile roofs with stone gable copings incorporating moulded fleuron finials. The gables are steeply pitched, with crested ridging, and feature coupled stone stacks with chamfered corners at the gable ends; a quadruple stack is positioned on the central ridge, topped with capstones. The cottages are 1½ to 2 storeys in height, with a total of six windows. The ground floor features three square bays, each with three-light stone mullion windows and wooden sashes. The original lozenges remain in the sash windows only at the right-hand end of number 24. A continuous pentice clay-tile roof extends over the doorways, creating canopies. The first floor has four windows, one in each gable, each with two lights and a trefoiled head, with a plated trefoil in the head. Each gable also has a single light with a shouldered head, and a lozenge-leaded window. The front doors are paired, positioned to the left and right of the central bay, and are plank doors with ornamental strap-hinges, dating to the 19th century. The door jambs are chamfered stone with pyramid stops. Decorative inscriptions are carved into projecting stone capitals on the gable ends; the western gable reads "Let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever," while the eastern gable reads "Yea they may forget yet will I not forget thee." Stone shields displaying coats of arms are located above the inscriptions. There are two gabled rear wings, each with a stack, situated near the ends of the row.

A roughly 20-metre length of roadside walls runs along the front of the cottages. These are constructed of coursed knapped flint with pitched coping stones that are roll-moulded at the apex. Two entrances to the cottages are accessed via short square piers with pyramid tops.