Cherry Tree Cottage, Cherry Tree Bungalow And Old Forge Cottage

Cherry Tree Cottage, Cherry Tree Bungalow, and Old Forge Cottage are a group of three historic buildings dating to around 1880. They are likely the work of the same architect as Twitchen House. The buildings are constructed of squared rubble with slate-hanging on the west and north side of the left-hand cottage. The roofs are slate-covered, with shaped rafter ends on the cottages, gablets and ventilation slats to the east end of the outbuilding, and slate hanging at the west end of the outbuilding. There are three large rubble stacks with offsets and brick shafts and oversailing courses to the caps; one is on the inner face of the left-hand cottage, one at the front of the cottage to the right end, and one at the rear in the angle between the cottage and the outbuilding, originally serving the blacksmith’s forge.

The buildings are composed of two cottages set at right angles to one another, with a connecting outbuilding running parallel to the right-hand cottage and extending westwards to butt against the east wall of the left-hand cottage. A small, right-angled extension with a hipped slate roof forms an L-shape on the north side of the outbuilding. The cottages are two storeys high, while the outbuilding is single-storey.

The front gable end of the left-hand cottage has three-light windows with slightly corbelled arches on each floor, and a C20 porch with a slated lean-to roof at the left end. The left side features a two-light and a single light window above a single-light window to the right of a C20 single-storey flat-roofed extension; the right side is blind. The recessed connecting portion of the outbuilding has a range of C20 casements. The left gable end of the right-hand cottage has two single-light casements to the left of a plank door and a three-light window, all under a single slightly cambered arch. A single two-light window is found on the south side in the cross-wing gable. At the east end, there are three-light windows on each floor, plus an additional single-light window on the ground floor to the right side. A recessed forge stack to the right has a large buttress with a small lean-to roof to the left, forming a porch to the cottage.