Garden Cottage, The Glen

Garden Cottage, built around 1885, was originally a gardener’s cottage on the Glen Estate and later served as a Post Office. It is a picturesque, one-and-a-half-story, L-shaped building with three bays, and features an overhanging roof with exposed rafters and bargeboards with braced drop finials on the gables. A single-story extension was added later into the re-entrant angle. The exterior is constructed from locally quarried whinstone rubble, with cream sandstone ashlar long and short quoins and dressings, featuring chamfered arrises.

The east (principal) elevation has a gabled timber porch with heavy uprights and a braced gablehead with a king-post finial. The porch sides show exposed rafters and a timber lattice and balustraded in-fill to the lower half. A timber boarded door with wrought-iron hinges and door handle is set within the porch. To the left is a one-and-a-half-story gabled end with a tripartite window on the ground floor and a smaller tripartite window above. A single window is located to the right of the porch.

The south elevation is a single-story section with a tripartite window to the right, a timber-boarded entrance door, and a narrow window to the left. The remainder of the elevation is blind.

The west and north elevations have an advanced gabled end with paired windows to the centre and left return. A pitch-roofed attic dormer with slated cheeks is present. A single-story, regularly fenestrated gabled extension stands in the re-entrant angle.

The windows are mostly timber casements with lying panes, including a nine-pane sliding casement window (arranged 3-3-3) to the gablehead of the main elevation, with a similar twelve-pane window below (arranged 4-4-4). The end gables have twelve panes in timber sash and case windows, while the west elevation has an eight-pane casement window and the rear has a four-pane timber sash and case window. The roof is covered with graded slate, featuring overhanging eaves, exposed timber rafters, plain barge boarding and timber drop brace finials, with lead ridging, flashings and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are present. Tall ashlar chimney stalks with moulded neck copes, many now missing their cans, rise from the gableheads and ridgeline.

The interior retains the original room layout and has plain timber skirting, doors, and stairs.