The Laws Cottage, Laws House

Later 19th century with later verandah. Asymmetrical, single storey with attic, L-plan, gabled cottage. Squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone; polished, stugged and droved sandstone dressings. Raised base course; overhanging timber bracketed eaves; timber bargeboards. Tooled quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to openings; stop- chamfered reveals; sandstone mullions; projecting cills (projecting ground floor windows with corbelled brackets beneath architraved cills).

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled bay advanced to outer right with projecting 5-light window centred at ground; bipartite window above. Catslide verandah to left with stop-chamfered timber columns dividing arcaded bays; decorative iron hinges to boarded timber door recessed within. Bipartite window at ground in bay to outer left.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabled bay advanced to outer left with 5-light window centred at ground; bipartite window above. Decorative 4-light glazing row recessed to right (entrance in re-entrant angle); shouldered- arched alcove with bracketed cill set behind verandah in bay recessed to outer right.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: single window at ground off-set to left of centre; narrow single window in bay off-set to right. Lean-to porch in bay to outer left.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: bipartite windows at both floors in gabled bay to outer right; single window in subsequent bay to left.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof; plain terracotta ridging; cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced sandstone ridge and wallhead stacks; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.