2 Farm Cottages, Pinkie, Manderston

Later 19th century with later alterations and additions. Single storey with attic, 9-bay row of cottages, incorporating Pinkie smithy. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone with stop-chamfered droved dressings to margins; harl-pointed rubble to side elevations; harled later additions to rear of each cottage. Stone mullions.

SW ELEVATION: 9-bay. Gabled porch to centre with intricate pierced barge-board and square-plan supporting columns tapering to base; shouldered lintel; boarded door with wrought-iron ornamental hinges and 2-pane letterbox fanlight above. Tripartite window to each of flanking bays with bipartite window to gabled dormer above at attic. 3 outer right bays mirror arrangement. Bipartite window at ground of inner left bay. Gabled bay to outer right with bipartite window at 1st floor. 3-bay group to outer left a mirror image of 3-bay group to outer right with exception to porch and split boarded door.

NE ELEVATION: rubble addition projecting from outer right; harled addition to centre of each cottage.

Timber lying-pane sash and case windows. Slate roof with brick stacks. Timber barge-boarding to dormers with kingpost and timber finials.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995. Furnace in place to smithy (outer 3-bay group to left); timber ladder giving access to attic storey.

TURNING WHEEL: iron, placed in front of smithy.