Cottages, Biel Mill

Biel Mill Cottages, built around 1840, are single-storey, U-plan cottages made up of three 3-bay cottages arranged symmetrically. They are constructed from stugged pink sandstone that is squared and snecked, featuring droved dressings, base and eaves courses, and chamfered reveals at the main openings. Each cottage has a central doorway flanked by timber mullioned bipartite windows on the external elevations of the U-plan, with a courtyard to the east. The gable end walls are located to the north and south, with the cottages on the west slightly advanced from the linking cottage in the center. These have stone-bracketed canopies, arrow-slits at the apex, and ball and obelisk finials. There are two later flat-roofed extensions added to the east gabled ends of the north and south cottages, using sympathetic stone on the outer elevations and harled finishes to the rear. The sash and case windows feature a horizontal-pane glazing pattern, and the ridge stacks have chamfered coping. The roofs are covered with grey slates, and the parapet skews and skewputts have gablet coping.