Numbers 1-7 (Consecutive) and Ruskin Cottage

This is a house and a row of seven attached cottages, dating from the 1850s. Ruskin Cottage is constructed of limestone ashlar and the other cottages are of coursed and dressed limestone. They have slate and concrete tile roofs, with moulded cornicing to the end stacks of each dwelling. Ruskin Cottage has a double-depth plan and is three stories high with a basement; the south-west front has two windows on the first floor. This front features horned 6/6-pane and 8/8-pane sash windows, and a decorative cast-iron balcony on the first floor. The cottages are two stories each, with a two-window range on each first floor. They have plain raised architraves to 6/6-pane first-floor sash windows and 3/6-pane ground-floor sash windows, with some later 19th-century and 20th-century replacements (to numbers 4, 5 and 6). Panelled doors (20th-century replacements at numbers 4-6) with overlights are also present. The interior has not been inspected. This is a well-preserved row of workers’ housing, built in an area developed for housing and industry following the arrival of the railway in 1840-1. The style is similar to the cottages built for workers at the Rowland Brotherhood’s engineering works on Marshfield Road.