3 Amisfield Cottages, Amisfield Estate

1850 to 1860, W block constructed first. 2 symmetrical blocks, single storey vernacular. Squared and snecked rubble (random to rear) in local brown conglomerate (clinkstone) with dressings in light-grey sandstone, stugged and droved.

W BLOCK: 2 cottages, 6-bay, gabled. Doors, originally plain boarded, no fanlight, flanked by windows enlarged to bipartite at outer bays with wooden mullion and concrete lintel. Hoodmoulding to doors and smaller windows. Small windows to each gable. To rear, lean-to extensions to outer bays. 2 small central windows.

E BLOCK: range of 4 cottages (now 2), 14 bays in all, with end bays turned and projecting to S, piended. Bisected by central pend, front (S) elevation has symmetrical openings. Doors, originally 2-leaf boarded, and smaller windows all with hoodmouldings, other windows enlarged to bipartite with wooden mullion and concrete lintel. Tiny window to returns of end bays, window also to outer return elevations with hoodmouldings. Rear elevation also symmetrical, lean-to extensions to outer bays flanked by bipartite window to outside, 2 small windows to inside. Modern garages slapped through either side of central pend.

Fenestration principally timber sash and case, some in 4-pane, some in 12 lying panes (originals?) to E block.

To rear elevation, mostly 2- or 4-pane and top opening.

Roofs in grey graded Scotch slate, E block piended, W block gabled with skews. Symmetrical ridge stacks in ashlar, projecting cope, plain cans.

COAL SHEDS: semi-circular block of 8 sheds in random rubble with stugged and droved sandstone dressings. Ashlar skew and coped to mono-pitch slated roof sloping inwards. Semi-derelict.