No 1 Sawmill Cottages, The Glen

No 1 Sawmill Cottages, located in The Glen, were built around 1857 by the Glen Estate masons and joiners. These are a pair of attached, one-and-a-half-storey, two-bay cottages designed in a picturesque style. They feature overhanging eaves, exposed rafters, and plain bargeboards on the gables. The cottages are constructed from locally quarried coursed whinstone rubble, accented with cream sandstone ashlar long and short quoins and dressings that have chamfered arrises.

On the south elevation, Number 1 has a two-leaf timber boarded entrance door set within a plain margined surround, flanked by central long quoins. To the left, there is a bipartite window with a timber mullion, enclosed in an ashlar surround where the sill and lintel extend beyond the jambs. Above, in the attic, there is a set-back pitched timber dormer that aligns with the ground floor window, featuring a boarded gable, plain barge boards, and a bipartite window with a timber mullion. Number 2 mirrors the layout of Number 1. The gabled ends have windows on the ground floor (adjacent to the rear) and a bipartite window at the gablehead, with projecting verges finished with plain barge boarding.

The windows throughout include 2 and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case styles, found in both the dormers and the main house. The cottages have a pitched slate roof with metal ridging, painted cast-iron rainwater goods, and two small ashlar chimney stacks with projecting neck copes and paired cans. There is also a similarly styled shared stack at the centre of the roofline with four cans.

Inside, the cottages retain original fireplaces and timber work, including doors and skirting boards, with near original room layouts that have undergone some modernisation. Timber staircases are also present.