No. 1 Black Hall Cottage

Blackhall Cottages is a range running E-W with canted E end (now part of No 2), rubble stone, painted on No 1, which has painted brick W end wall to the road. Slate hipped roof with deep flat eaves of earlier C19 type, red brick stacks with raised band on W end wall and on ridge between Nos 1 and 2. Two storeys. S front is mostly No 1 with just right bay and canted end part of No 2. No 1 is much altered. Painted brick left end wall has Flemish bond brickwork, raised chimneybreast set to right of centre with three-light first floor C19 window to left with Gothic tracery and small panes in top lights. Immured cambered head below. Modern narrow window to first floor right. S front has board 'Black Hall Cottage' and altered fenestration. First floor has a large cross-window with iron opening light and stone voussoirs to left of centre and three small rectangular single casements to right, the second one possibly in original opening, with stone voussoirs. Cross-window and second casement have iron opening lights. Ground floor left had a door with brick cambered head flanked by two small windows with stone voussoirs to heads, the door now a cross-window and the little windows now blocked. The three bays to centre and right, aligned with the three small upper windows have doorway and two inserted modern windows in new brick surrounds, one larger, one smaller (a door in 1983). The doorcase has plain pilasters and frames panelled door with boarded overlight (boarded in 2005, blocked with tracery in 1983). Sloping hood with modern tiles. No 2 is not whitewashed. One window each floor with cambered heads and stone voussoirs: modern casement pairs, the lower one with top light (both openings blocked in brick 1983). Doorway to right with modern panelled doors in modern pedimented doorcase (ledged door with stone voussoirs 1983). The E end is three-sided with similar window each floor in SE and NE canted sides, windowless E facet. The rear has added later C19 stone wing, single storey with slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles and blue brick ridge stack on axis. Windowless E wall and N gable end with cambered-headed door to right.

Under renovation 2005. Right hand room has boxed beam and rough axial beams. In No 2 is the underground cell.