Addington Cottages

A row of four cottages was built in 1869 by Lord Sidmouth, intended as estate workers’ housing. The cottages are constructed from local stone and flint rubble, with grey limestone ashlar and cream Membury stone ashlar dressings. The roofs are slate, with crested ridge tiles.

The cottages are arranged as a row facing west, numbered 1 to 4 from right to left (south to north). The design is mirrored around a central party wall; cottages 1 and 2 mirror cottages 3 and 4. The central pair (cottages 2 and 3) share a front porch and are two rooms deep, with axial stacks that are shared with the other cottages. Cottages 1 and 4 are crosswings that project forward, with entrances within two-story porches set back at each end.

The front of the cottages has a symmetrical design with a 2:4:2 window arrangement, featuring mostly original timber mullion-and-transom windows with glazing bars. Ground floor windows and four first-floor windows are arched with voussoirs and quoins of alternating grey and cream blocks, with chamfered reveals. The central porch is gabled and has two doorways, each with a segmental pointed arch. The end cottage porches have flat-headed doorways. The cottage doorways have original plank doors, although some now include windows. Lightly rusticated ashlar quoins feature at the corners, and there is a band around the building that aligns with the window arches. A datestone reading 1869 is set into the gable of the central porch, and plaques carved with the Sidmouth arms are on the gables of the crosswings. Four small gables are positioned between the crosswings, one over each first-floor window. All these gables, along with the left crosswing gable, have original shaped open bargeboards.

The cottages form part of a group of listed buildings in the village’s centre and were built in the 19th century by Lord Sidmouth. The interiors were not inspected.