Academy Cottage, 4 Academy Square, Limekilns

18th century. 2-storey; 5-bay rectangular-plan house; attached 2-storey, 3-bay house to E and outshot to S. White harling; ashlar stone surrounds; crowstepped gables.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: door at 3rd bay; window to right; glazed door to left; window to far left. Tall, narrow 1st floor windows; 3 to left of entrance door; right window centred above ground floor window. Single storey outshot to far right with door.

N ELEVATION: window in right gable; rear house gable set back to left with door.

E ELEVATION: central door; flanking windows; 3 1st floor windows centred above. Plain wall of earlier house set back to right.

S ELEVATION: 2 gables sit flush together; modern garage door to right; single 1st floor window above to right. Single ground and 1st floor windows to right in W gable; outshot to left; single window to right.

Predominantly 12-pane replacement timber sash and case windows with horns; 2 ground floor 16-pane timber sash and case windows to principal elevation. Crowstepped gables to earlier house with moulded skewputts; exposed stonework to S crowsteps; raised flat coping to E house gables. Double pitched roof; red clay pantile; corniced gable apex stacks to W house; 1 S gable apex stack to E house; polygonal clay cans.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1999.

GARDEN WALL

Rubble garden wall extends N-wards from N gable running eastwards and S. Tall coped chimney stack in NW apex.