Anvil Cottage, The Glen

Anvil Cottage, located in The Glen, was built by the masons and joiners of the Glen Estate around 1880. This picturesque style worker's cottage is one and a half storeys high, featuring a three-bay rectangular plan. The cottage has a gabled entrance canopy, overhanging eaves with exposed rafters, and plain bargeboards on the gables. It is constructed from locally quarried coursed whinstone rubble, accented with cream sandstone ashlar for the long and short quoins and dressings, which have chamfered arrises.

On the south elevation, a flight of stone steps leads up to the house, flanked by low wing walls that end in flat capped piers. The entrance features a central two-leaf timber boarded door set within a plain margined surround that includes central long quoins. Above the door, there is an ornate pitched timber canopy supported by arched timber brackets, which are adorned with a carved drop finial and a tall spike finial on top. To either side of the entrance, there are bipartite windows with timber mullions set within an ashlar surround, where the sill and lintel extend beyond the jambs. In the attic, there are set-back pitched timber dormers on the outer bays, which have boarded gables, plain barge boards, and bipartite windows. The gabled ends of the returns feature projecting verges finished with plain barge boarding, and the rear elevation mirrors the design of the principal elevation.

The cottage has 2 and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, including those in the dormers and the main house. The pitched slate roof is topped with metal ridging, and it features painted cast-iron rainwater goods. There are two small ashlar stacks with projecting neck copes and paired cans, which appear to be at the roofline but are likely gablehead due to the overhanging roof.

Inside, the cottage retains original fireplaces and timber work, including doors and skirting boards, and it has near original room layouts with some later modernisation.