Garden Cottage, The Glen

Glen Estate masons and joiners, circa 1885. 1?-storey, 3-bay, L-plan, picturesque style former gardener's cottage (later Post Office) with gabled entrance canopy, overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and plain bargeboards with braced drop finials to gables; slightly later single storey single bay extension in re-entrant angle. Locally quarried coursed whinstone rubble with cream sandstone ashlar long and short quoins and dressings with chamfered arrises.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to centre, gabled timber porch with heavy uprights to front, in-filled braced gablehead with king-post finial, exposed rafters to sides with timber lattice and balustraded in-fill to lower half; timber boarded door with wrought-iron hinges and similarly styled door handle; to left, 1?-storey gabled end with tripartite window to ground floor and slightly smaller tripartite window to ?-storey; timber purlins and plain boarding to gablehead; single window to right of porch.

S ELEVATION: single storey elevation with tripartite window to right with central timber boarded entrance door with narrow window to right, left of elevation blind.

W & N ELEVATIONS: To N, advanced gabled end with paired windows to centre and to left return, pitch-roofed attic dormer with slated cheeks. Early single storey, regularly fenestrated gabled extension in re-entrant angle.

Mostly lying-pane timber casement windows of varying size including 9-pane sliding casement window (arranged 3-3-3) to gablehead of main elevation with similar 12-pane window below (arranged 4-4-4), 12 lying panes in timber sash and case windows to end gables, 8-pane casement window to W with 4-pane timber sash and case window to rear. Graded slate roof with overhanging eaves, exposed timber rafters, plain barge boarding and timber drop brace finials; lead ridging, flashings and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Tall ashlar chimney stalks with moulded neck copes (most plain cans now missing) on gablehead and ridgeline bridge bases.

INTERIOR: original room layout with plain timber skirting, doors and stairs.