Anvil Cottage, The Glen

Glen Estate masons and joiners, circa 1880. 1?-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, picturesque style worker's cottage with gabled entrance canopy, overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and plain bargeboards to gables. Locally quarried coursed whinstone rubble with cream sandstone ashlar long and short quoins and dressings with chamfered arrises.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: flight of stone steps (leading up to house) with low wing walls terminating in flat capped piers. House with central 2-leaf timber boarded entrance door within plain margined surround with central long quoins, ornate pitched timber canopy held on arched timber brackets with carved drop finial and tall spike finial surmounting; bipartite windows with timber mullion set within ashlar surround (sill and lintel advance beyond jambs) to flanks; to attic, set-back pitched timber dormers to outer bays with boarded gables, plain barge boards and bipartite windows. Gabled ends to returns with projecting verges finished with plain barge boarding; rear elevation similar to that of principal.

2 and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows (to dormers and main house respectively); timber gabled dormers to attic. Pitched slate roof with metal ridging. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. 2 tiny ashlar stacks with projecting neck copes and paired cans (stacks appear roofline but likely to be gablehead due to overhanging roof).

INTERIOR: original fireplaces and timber work (including doors and skirting boards); near original room plans with later modernisation;