Nos. 1 to 5 Sunnybank Cottages

Nos. 1 to 5 Sunnybank Cottages are a group of five cottages built in the 18th century. They are of dressed limestone construction with brick chimney stacks. Nos. 1 to 3 have plain clay tile roofs with a coped verge to No.1, while Nos. 4 and 5 have thatched roofs.

The cottages are arranged in a row, each being single-depth and two storeys high, with single-storey lean-tos to the rear of Nos. 1 to 4. No. 5 has a 20th-century extension to its north side. The south-east facing front elevation has five cottages, each of three bays, except for No. 3, which is of two bays. Nos. 1 and 2 each have a central plank entrance door with a gabled porch. To either side at ground and first-floor level are four-light casement windows. No. 3 has a glazed door with a gabled porch, a 12-light casement window, a 2-light window on the ground floor, and an eight-light casement window above. No. 4 has a stable door to the right of centre, flanked by eight-light casement windows at ground and first-floor level. No. 5 features a plank door to the right of centre, with an eight-light casement to the left and a single casement window to the right, and two two-light leaded casements to the first floor. The rear (north-west) elevation has a catslide roof incorporated with extensions to Nos. 1 to 3, and dormer windows – one to No.1, two to No.2, and a gablet and a Velux window to No. 3. A lean-to extension at the rear of No. 4 has an eyebrow dormer window with a two-light casement window and a single casement window to the first floor. Behind No. 5 is a single casement and a steel casement window.

The interiors of Nos. 1 and 3 were not inspected in 2013 but are understood to retain open fireplaces with bressumers (a wooden beam above a fireplace) supported on stone jambs (side supports) and chamfered ceiling beams. The interior of No. 2, inspected in 2013, has had its fireplace and bread oven removed; the plank doors are 20th-century replacements. It still retains a chamfered ceiling beam and joists, along with evidence of a former opening in the original rear wall. The roof structure was replaced late in the 20th century, although original 18th-century principal rafters remain. According to a 1987 list entry, No. 4’s interior has an open fireplace with a bressumer on stone jambs, and plank doors. No. 5’s interior has a chamfered ceiling beam and a blocked open fireplace.