Numbers 54 And 55 And Open Fronted Store

Numbers 54 and 55, along with an open-fronted store, are a detached house that has been divided into two cottages, dating from the mid-17th century. The building is constructed of roughly coursed squared and dressed limestone, topped with a stone slate roof. The squared and dressed limestone stack has been repaired with brick. The structure has a rectangular plan, featuring a wash house at the south-east corner and an open-fronted store positioned at right angles to the wash house. A lean-to at the west gable end of the house is not of special interest.

The main body of the building has two storeys and an attic, presenting a symmetrical, two-windowed entrance on the south-east front, which faces away from the road. It features two and three-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements with hoods, as well as two hipped slate-hung roof dormers with horizontal glazing bars. The entrance to No 54 is marked by a central 19th-century plank door set within a Tudor-arched flat-chamfered roll-moulded surround, while No 55 has a 19th-century plank door positioned far to the right. The single-storey wash house projects forward to the right.

The rear elevation of the house has two windows: one is a three-light stone-mullioned casement with ovolo-moulded mullions and a stopped hood on the ground floor to the right, and the other is a two-light wooden casement with a timber lintel to the left. The first floor features a single-light and a three-light metal casement with a timber lintel. The open-fronted store, which faces away from the house, includes a former earth closet at the rear and has a five-bay front divided by square stone-built piers. The main body of the building has an axial stack, while the former gable-end stack has been removed. At the time of the last survey in September 1986, the roofs of both the cottages and the store were noted to be in poor condition.