Lock Cottage

Lock Cottage is a house likely built in the early 19th century for the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal. It features English-bond brickwork and a slate roof. The building is two stories high, with a single-storey extension on the left, and has three windows across the front.

On either side of the windows and doors, there are pilaster buttresses, one brick wide, which rise from the ground to the eaves. These buttresses widen at the window sill and lintel level on the ground floor, and only at the lintel level on the first floor. The buttresses are wider on each side of the front door, without widening at the sill level.

The central door has a plywood finish and is covered by a simple gabled timber porch with a corrugated-iron roof. There are six-pane sash windows on either side of the ground floor, with stone sills and lintels. The first floor has four-pane wide sashes, with a blind window in the center, also featuring stone sills and lintels. A moulded brick course at the eaves forms a string course across the gable, and there is a flat wide soffit to the eaves with a wide verge. A small chimney is located at the rear.

The extension has a plywood door with buttresses on each side, positioned to the right of center, and features clipped eaves and verge. Lock Cottage is the only surviving lock keeper's house in the area, situated on a canal that was closed in the 1880s for conversion to a railway.