Pilmoor Cottages

Pilmoor Cottages is a terrace of four houses built in 1843 for the Great North of England Railway Company. The cottages are constructed from pinkish brick in an irregular English garden wall bond and feature a Welsh slate roof. They are two storeys high, with each house having one wide bay. The symmetrical facade consists of handed pairs of cottages, with paired doorways flanked by windows. The openings have chamfered brick surrounds, with Tudor-arched heads on the doors and side-sliding sash windows that have chamfered brick cills and flat brick arches. The doors were originally made of battened boards, but all except for No 7's have been altered to part-glazed with fanlights. The ground floor features tall 16-pane windows, while the first floor has 12-pane windows. Above each pair of doorways, there is a raised, shield-shaped stone plaque displaying the date and the initials of the railway company. The cottages have shaped ashlar kneelers and ashlar coping with a roll-moulded ridge. The chimney stacks are located at the left end (rebuilt), the center (rebuilt), and the right end, which has a cogged table beneath tripled polygonal flues with capstones. At the rear, the paired doorways are similar to those at the front, with flat brick arches; No 7's door remains of battened boards, while the others are part-glazed from the 20th century. Each doorway is accompanied by a small 6-pane window and a large 12-pane window, with a 2-light window featuring 4-pane sashes on the first floor. The side walls rise as parapets at either end. At the time of the survey, No 7 was unoccupied.