Pilmoor Cottages

SE 47 SE BRAFFERTON RACE LANE 2/55 (east side, off)

Nos 7-10 Pilmoor Cottages

II

Terrace of four houses. Dated 1843, for the Great North of England Railway Company. Pinkish brick in irregular English garden wall bond; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 1 wide bay each. Symmetrical facade with handed pairs of cottages, the paired doorways flanked by windows. Openings have chamfered brick surrounds, the doors with Tudor- arched heads and the side-sliding sash windows with chamfered brick cills and flat brick arches; doors originally of battened boards, but all except No 7's now part-glazed with fanlights; tall 16-pane windows to ground floor, 12-pane windows to 1st floor. Above each pair of doorways is a raised, shield-shaped stone plaque bearing date and initials of railway company. Shaped ashlar kneelers; ashlar coping with roll-moulded ridge. Stacks to left end (rebuilt), centre (rebuilt) and right end, the latter with cogged table beneath tripled polygonal flues with capstones. Rear: paired doorways, as before, with flat brick arches, No 7's of battened boards, the rest C20 part-glazed; to outer side of each a small 6-pane window and a large 12-pane window, and on 1st floor a 2-light window with 4-pane sashes. At either end side wall rises as parapet. No 7 unoccupied at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SE4668372707