Lanhill Cottages

A pair of estate cottages dating from around 1850, designed by J. Thomson for J. Neeld of Grittleton House. The cottages are constructed from coursed rubble stone with stone-tiled eaves roofs, half-hipped at the gables. There is a ridge stack and external wall stacks to the north and east sides; the ridge stack is truncated, and the side wall stacks feature ornate, circular, Romanesque-style shafts. The layout is L-shaped, with one-and-a-half storeys. The design is in a picturesque cottage style, featuring flush quoins and a raised string course. Both the south and west gable ends are identical, with a small, triangular-plan first-floor oriel window, supported by a single curved bracket, and a stone-tiled roof. Each gable also has an initial ground floor two-light, flush stone-mullion window. An angle of the L-shape incorporates a double porch, which is square and has lean-to sections on each wall face, culminating in a valley roof along the diagonal. Tudor-arched ashlar doorways are present on each face of the porch. Later inserted windows are visible to the left and right of the porch, and on the first floor. Three similar inserted dormers are present on the rear east side.