West Cottage, 1-2 Bush Cottages, Glen Tanar House

A late 19th-century pair of semi-detached cottages, two storeys and basement, with a rectangular plan of four bays. The construction is coursed, tooled pink granite rubble with long and short dressings and strip quoins.

The south-east elevation is symmetrical. The centre two bays have mansard gables, with regular fenestration at ground floor, flanked on either side by boarded timber doors fitted with decorative glazed panels. Windows are set in the gablehead of each mansard, with additional windows in the outer left and outer right bays. Flat-roofed dormers occupy the attic floor at the outer left and outer right bays. Two satellite dishes are present on this elevation.

The north-west elevation is largely obscured by the boundary wall, but retains boarded timber doors to the basement level. A bay at the centre is advanced. Two horizontally boarded lean-to timber additions on stilts are present at attic floor level.

The south-west elevation is blank. The north-east elevation was not seen during the 1998 survey.

The building is finished with modern timber glazing featuring tape astragals between the panes. The roof is piended grey slate with a slate ridge. The granite wallhead and ridge stacks are coped and finished with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The interior was not seen during the 1998 survey.

3-5 Bush Cottages

Designed by George Truefitt, circa 1885. A complex of single-storey and attic cottages comprising a pair of regular cottages, a single-bay turreted cottage, and a two-bay link section, arranged across a four-bay frontage. The construction is coursed granite rubble with ladder snecking and cherry-cocking, with finely finished margins, sloping rough-faced cills, long and short quoins, and timber bargeboards.

The south-east principal elevation is nearly symmetrical. The pair of cottages to the right have tripartite windows to the centre bays at ground floor, with gableted timber dormers to the attic floor above. Two wallhead stacks sit between the centre bays and outer bays. The outer left and right bays are gabled with regular fenestration to both ground and attic floors. A single-storey link recessed to the left has a lean-to covering one bay to its right and a glazed timber door to its left bay. The turreted cottage is advanced to the outer left. It features a gabled bay with a bipartite oriel window and a window to the right return. A circular tower rises at the re-entrant angle to the right, punctuated by a band of round-arched windows and topped with a stone eaves course. The roof to the turreted cottage is distinctive, with fishscale banding and an iron finial at the apex.

The north-east elevation is symmetrical across three bays. A granite porch with an open front is advanced to the centre of the ground floor, with windows to its left and right returns and a glazed panelled timber door. Regular fenestration occupies the flanking bays to left and right. A rooflight off-centre to the left illuminates the attic floor. A single-storey, single-bay building adjoins to the outer right with a piended roof and a glazed boarded timber door off-centre to its right return.

The north-west elevation is asymmetrical across four bays. The pair of cottages to the left have advanced lean-tos at their two centre bays and gabled bays to the left and right. The ground floor of the bay to the left is obscured by a single-storey piend-roofed addition with a door to its right return and a window set in the gablehead. The ground floor of the bay to the right is advanced, featuring a bipartite window, a window to the right return, and a window set in the gablehead of the attic floor. A single-storey link to the right has a bipartite window to the left and three windows to the right. The turreted cottage adjoins to the outer right, presenting a single gabled bay with a bipartite window at ground floor, a window to the attic floor, and a piend-roofed timber dormer to the left return.

The south-west elevation features a boarded timber opening off-centre to the right.

The windows are predominantly modern timber casements and sash-and-case types, with tape astragals between the panes on the windows to No 3. The roof is piended graded grey slate with lead ridges; the turreted cottage features a fishscale banded roof. The corniced granite wallhead stacks are fitted with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present throughout.

The interior was not seen during the 1998 survey.

Kennels

Designed by George Truefitt, circa 1885. A single-storey and attic kennel and cottage block of three bays. The construction is rough-faced, squared and snecked pink and grey granite with finely finished margins, strip quoins, sloping cills, a crowstepped gable, and overhanging eaves.

The south-east principal elevation is nearly symmetrical. A gabled bay is advanced to the centre, with a window at the centre of the ground floor set within a flat-roofed, corniced porch surmounted by iron railings forming a balcony. A doorway opens to the left return, with windows flanking to left and right. A glazed timber door is set in the gablehead, flanked by two narrow single-pane windows. A piend-roofed timber dormer with a left return illuminates the attic floor. A porch occupies the re-entrant angle to the left, containing a panelled timber door and a letterbox fanlight. A tripartite window lights the bay to the left, whilst the bay to the right is obscured by railings.

The north-east and north-west elevations were not seen during the 1998 survey.

The south-west elevation is asymmetrical across two bays. The bay to the right is advanced, with its wall surmounted by looped iron railings. A timber door is set off-centre to the left at ground floor, and a gabled boarded timber opening with kingpost detail occupies the attic floor. Irregular fenestration appears to the left return. The bay to the left is recessed, with three square openings to the ground floor flanked by doorways. A piend-roofed dormer with a glazed boarded timber door breaks the eaves at attic floor level.

The windows are predominantly modern timber. The piended roof is finished in purple-grey slate with a fishscale band and lead ridges, and a louvred ventilator is set at the apex on the south-west. The wallhead and ridge stacks are coped and fitted with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The interior was not seen during the 1998 survey.

Boundary Walls and Railings

Coped tooled rubble walls are surmounted by looped railings, stepped down to the south-east of the Kennels. A rough-faced, coped wall extends from an ancillary structure to the north of 3-5 Bush Cottages. A coped granite wall, stepped down to the west and north of 1-2 Bush Cottages, completes the boundary treatment.