Glendale Cottages

Glendale Cottages comprise a row of two cottages, originally probably three, situated on Manor Street in Dittisham. The building likely dates to the 17th century, with alterations and remodelling occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries. The construction is of painted and roughcast stone rubble, with a slate roof featuring gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. Number 2, located on the left, has been re-roofed with asbestos slates. A rendered gable end and two rear lateral stacks with clay pots are visible; one of the stacks projects slightly and incorporates set-offs.

The arrangement initially uncertain, it may have started as a single dwelling extended and divided, or a row of cottages from the beginning. Currently, there is a single-depth, four-room plan. Two central rooms are heated via lateral stacks at the rear, the right-hand room has a gable end stack, and the left-hand room remains unheated. The original position of a potential through passage is unclear.

The west-facing front has an asymmetrical five-window design. The first floor features circa early 19th century and later 19th century two and three-light casements with glazing bars, alongside a 20th-century two-light casement to the left. The ground floor has late 19th-century and 20th-century four-pane sashes, a small single fixed-light window to the left, and a 20th-century three-light window with top-opening lights, all set beneath wooden lintels. Number 1 has a late 19th-century glazed and panelled door with a matching slated gabled canopy on brackets. Number 2 features a late 20th-century divided glazed door centrally, and another similar door at the left end, also with an asbestos slate canopy. The left-hand end of the front wall projects slightly. The right-hand, south-facing gable end includes a 19th-century two-light casement on the ground floor with glazing bars. The rear, east-facing elevation is blank, displaying two lateral stacks; the right-hand stack projects slightly.

The interior of Number 2 was inspected, revealing a timber lintel with a thin chamfer and ogee stops over the right-hand rear fireplace, and a cambered timber lintel with run-out stops to the chamfer above the left-hand fireplace. Close-spaced light cantling and roughly dressed ceiling beams are also present. The roof was not inspected, but it was reported that the original thatched roof, featuring straight principal rafters, was removed during the 20th century.