28-35 Newtown

This is a terrace of eight cottages located at 28-35 Newtown, Wilborne Port. The cottages were built around 1818 as part of a planned development. They are constructed from local stone rubble laid in courses, with varied roofing materials: thatched hipped and half-hipped roofs on numbers 33-35, asbestos cement slates on number 28, and corrugated iron on numbers 29-30. The chimney stacks are brick, some rendered and altered, and arranged in an 'L' plan block similar to numbers 19-27. The cottages are generally two storeys, with most houses featuring just one bay.

Number 28 has been enlarged, now comprising two bays with a lean-to single-storey extension to the South gable. The upper storey of the projecting main gable is rendered, and the house has plain casement windows and a later door to the side. Number 29 appears to have been absorbed into number 28. Number 30 has 20th-century plain casement windows and a late 20th-century stone and corrugated asbestos sheet porch with an eight-panel door. Number 31 is similar, but includes a rendered porch with a glazed aluminium door. Number 32 also has plain casements and an earlier boarded door; numbers 30-32 share segmental arched heads over their lower windows, and number 32 has a segmental arched doorway. Number 33, the corner house, has a projecting, chamfered gable, leaded steel casement windows, and a shared corner porch with number 34. Number 34 has a casement window below the porch and a steel window above. Number 35 is two bays wide, with a lean-to porch in the South East corner; the first bay projects, and the house has mid-20th-century small pane casement windows. Significantly, over the porch is a surviving original leaded semi-circular casement window.

The interiors of the cottages have not been inspected. Newtown was originally planned around 1818 with approximately 80 thatched cottages, and is rumoured to have originated as a political scheme. Although the terrace has undergone alterations, it retains some original details not seen elsewhere and demonstrates the original concept of the Newtown development. The buildings are primarily included on the list for their group value.