Candlemas Cottage

Candlemas Cottage is a terrace of four cottages, originally five, dating from the 18th century. The cottages are constructed of witchert, which is colourwashed and roughcast, sitting on a colourwashed and rendered rubblestone plinth. They feature an old tile roof and are two storeys tall. No. 1 has two bays with a central door, while No. 3, which was formerly two cottages, has two bays. Nos. 5 and 7 each consist of one bay. The cottages have leaded casement windows, with three-light windows on the ground floor and two-light windows in the left-hand ground floor bay of No. 1 and on the first floor of all the cottages. No. 5 has a ground floor steel casement window. The doors in the left bay of Nos. 3, 5, and 7, and the right bay of the right half of No. 3, are board doors. The cottages feature gable and party stacks, with rendered brick eaves. No. 1 has a rubblestone flank wall, while No. 7 has a rubblestone gable. These cottages were originally built for duck keepers, reflecting the significance of the Aylesbury Duck industry in Haddenham.