Fountain Cottages

Fountain Cottages is a pair of cottages built around 1855 by George Gilbert Scott. They are constructed from coursed and squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, featuring shaped and hung clay tiles on the attic storey and shaped clay tile roofs with plain tile bands, along with ashlar ridge stacks. The design reflects a mix of vernacular revival and Swiss Chalet styles.

The cottages are semi-detached with projecting porches on the east and west sides and projecting wings on the southeast and southwest. The south elevation has one storey and an attic, with five bays. The central block has projecting gabled wings on either side, adorned with shaped and painted barge boards, and slightly lower projecting porches facing east and west. There are casement windows, with three-light canted bays on the ground floor to the right and left of the centre, featuring chamfered mullions and hipped roofs. The centre has two single light windows with Caernarvon arch heads, along with a ground floor single light window to the left. A two-light attic window is located in the gabled wing to the left of centre, and there is a central gabled dormer with shaped and painted barge boards. Both gabled wings have gabled dormers facing west, and there is a doorway to the right with a Caernarvon arch head. Fountain Cottages is an important part of the picturesque estate village that Scott designed in the 1850s.