Blossom Cottage

Blossom Cottage is a pair of cottages, now combined into a single property, dating from around 1822. The exterior is rendered and whitewashed, with an asbestos-cement tile roof and square brick stacks on the return gables. The cottages were originally planned with a single room on each side of a rear yard, containing service rooms. The two-storey, four-bay building has recessed central doorways and timber casement windows at ground level. Above the central doorway, at first-floor level, is a blind opening containing a date stone inscribed “1822” alongside some illegible lettering. A plain string course separates the ground and first floors. The interior, which was not inspected in 2009, was described in 1990 as retaining early 19th-century plank doors, ceilings with plain joists set on edge, and a quarter-turn staircase in the corner of each main room. The property began as a pair of modest cottages, remaining largely unaltered through the later 19th and 20th centuries before conversion to a single house. Blossom Cottage is designated at Group Value Grade II because it retains its character as a pair of vernacular cottages from 1822, and the original form of the pair remains identifiable.