Avondale

Avondale is a pair of attached houses that were originally built as the residences for a mine captain and a manager. These houses date from the mid to late 19th century and have undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The structure features rubble with rendered sides and rear, while the front is slate-hung. It has slate hipped roofs with brick stacks. The houses are designed as mirror images of each other, with cross wings on either side and entrance porches at the angles, creating an overall H-plan layout.

The building is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of 1:3:1, with all windows being 12-pane sashes set in plain reveals with cills. The projecting wings on the left and right have canted bays that rise through both storeys, featuring 12-pane sashes at the front and 8-pane sashes on each side. The central three bays on the ground floor have a similar sash window in the middle, with single-storey wooden porches on either side, each featuring half-glazed 20th-century doors. There is an off-centre brick stack on the left side.

The right return of the building includes a small single-storey 20th-century concrete addition, while the left return has 12-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, along with two stacks at the eaves. The rear of the house has wings on the left and right, each with ground and first floor 12-pane sashes. The right wing features a small single light on the ground floor, and there is a central bay with similar sashes on both floors. There are porches on both sides, with the right porch having a pitched roof, a plain door, and a 4-pane light, while the left porch has a hipped roof, a door, and a single light with a 6-pane light in the wing to the right. The building stands on a granite and slatestone rubble plinth, with a lean-to at the end that has a 6-pane light and a 20th-century door. The interior of the house has not been inspected. It was formerly known as The Old Mine House.