Home Close Wheelwrights

Home Close and Wheelwrights are two houses formed from what were originally four semi-detached cottages. They date from the early to mid-19th century. The cottages are built of coursed, squared, and dressed limestone with a thin stone slate roof, and have ashlar stacks plus a more recent artificial stone stack. The buildings have a long, rectangular shape, with a single-storey kitchen extension at the rear of Wheelwrights (the left-hand building). A 20th-century extension is located to the left of Wheelwrights, and a large, part-glazed porch at the front is considered not to be of special interest. Similarly, two 20th-century, part-glazed porches at the front of Home Close are also not of special interest. The facade is two storeys high, and has eight windows. Home Close has 20th-century two-light wood casement windows with glazing bars. A plank door with a single pane of glass is within the right-hand porch, alongside a 20th-century part-glazed door within the left-hand porch. Wheelwrights has two-light metal casement windows, a 20th-century door with glazing bars to the far left, and a part-glazed door within a porch. The axial stacks have chamfered cappings and skirtings. The interior was not inspected. These are good examples of 'estate' cottages, externally little modified.