20 And 21, Compton Road

A pair of estate cottages dated 1875, designed by Henry Weaver for W.H. Poynder. They are built of rock-faced squared rubble stone, with a fishscale banded tile roof surviving on No. 20, and concrete plain tiles to No. 21. Stone stacks are present. The cottages are arranged as a T-plan, joined back-to-side. Each cottage has coped gables and stone mullion windows with shouldered heads to the lights and decorative hexagonal lattice cast-iron glazing.

No. 21, facing west, has a symmetrical front with a north stack. There is a single two-light window on either side of a projecting porch gable, with a single light above a shouldered-headed doorway, featuring a hoodmould and lozenge-shaped stops. A date plaque is positioned above the doorway. The south end wall has two two-light windows.

No. 20, facing south, has an identical projecting porch gable, a two-light window to the ground floor right, and a three-light window to the ground floor left, with a single light over in a coped dormer gable. An east end stack and a ridge stack at the west end are also present. The cottages correspond to Plate 6, a design for cottages near Beversbrook, in Henry Weaver's Hints on Cottage Architecture of 1848.