Spedding Cottages

Spedding Cottages is a row of three almshouses built in 1835, with a rear extension added to No. 2 in the 20th century. The cottages are constructed from local limestone rubble, featuring dressed stone quoins and a chamfered rendered plinth. They have a slate roof with slate coped gable ends, moulded corbel kneelers, and squat octagonal finials. There are two stone rubble axial stacks, each with two rebuilt diagonally set red brick shafts.

The layout consists of four almshouse cottages; the end cottages have a single depth with two-room plans, while the center pair has one-room plans, sharing a two-storey central porch. The two central cottages have been converted into one and extended in the 20th century. The exterior is two storeys high and features a symmetrical arrangement of bays in a 1:2:1:2:1 pattern. The centre bay includes a two-storey gabled porch with side buttresses and kneelers, flanked by two windows on the first floor in gabled half-dormers. There are doorways at each end of the front without windows above.

The windows are set in moulded rendered openings, with ground floor windows featuring hoodmoulds and two-light ovolo moulded wooden mullion windows, while the first-floor windows are casements with glazing bars. All windows are original from the 19th century. The three doorways consist of one in the porch and two outer doorways, each with chamfered rendered four-centred arch openings and 19th-century plank doors with cover moulds. Above the centre doorway in the porch is a large slate plaque in a moulded recess with a Latin inscription, which translates to: "This house was built as an everlasting alms at the expense of Mary Spedding in pious memory of Margaret Froude her sister. The adjoining field was received for the same purpose by Henry Champernowne AD.1835." A small single light iron casement in the gable above has leaded panes. The interior has not been inspected.