Candlewick Cottage

25 & 26 Salop Road, Overton

Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Ornamented chamfered stone aixial stacks. Tudor Gothic style. Single storeyed, symmetrically planned with central and 2 flanking gables divided by recessed bays. Originally planned as 3x2-unit dwellings, occupying the central range and 2 cross wings. Central entrance is now disused but survives intact. Narrow central porch with steep pedimented gable echoing arch over doorway, and inscription in tympanum. This central entrance is flanked by renewed casement windows, then by the symmetrical outer gables. These each have a canted bay window with stone mullioned and transomed arched lights and iron casements. Fleurons to coped gables flanked by pinnacles, and with an embattled parapet continuing across front and return elevations. Return elevations have similar gabled central porches, and renewed casement windows to either side.