Royal Oak Cottages

A row of two cottages, originally incorporating a shop, dating from the mid-19th century. The cottages are constructed of exposed and colour-washed rubble walls with a slate roof, hipped to the left and gabled to the right. Axial rubble stacks are present, one on each side, with a further stack at the right-hand end; a similar lateral stack is at the rear of the left-hand cottage. The cottages have a double-depth plan. The larger left-hand cottage originally included a shop at its left end with independent access, and a room to its right beyond a front door. The right-hand cottage likely contains just two rooms. The front has an asymmetrical five-window arrangement, 3:2. The left-hand cottage retains what is probably its original 28-pane shop window, with a 19th-century door featuring marginal glazing on a splayed corner. To the right of the shop window are original 16-pane hornless sash windows; the central first-floor window has 12 panes. The right-hand cottage is single-fronted, with later 19th-century horned 16-pane sashes, and a blind first-floor left-hand window, below a 19th-century panelled door. The interior has not been inspected. The building forms a group with the Royal Oak Inn.