Beráin Cottage

End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, c.1800, with render pilaster doorcase having consoles with canopy over. Extensively renovated, c.1960. Refenestrated, c.1990. Gable-ended roof (shared to south-west). Replacement artificial slate, c.1960. Concrete ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stack. Metal rainwater goods. Replacement rendered walls, c.1960. Painted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Render doorcase with pilasters, consoles and canopy over. Timber panelled door. Diamond-leaded overlight. Set back from line of road. Tarmacadam forecourt to front with timber fence to boundary.Gateway, c.1800, to north-east comprising pair of rendered piers with elliptical-headed carriageway having gable over with cut-stone dressings forming 'pediment’. Replacement timber boarded gates, c.1990.

This house is an attractive modest-scale building that forms a neat group with the buildings of identical roofline to south-west. Although extensively renovated in the late twentieth century leading to the loss of much of the original fabric, the house retains its original form and is an attractive feature on the approach road into the village of Johnstown from the north-east. The house is distinguished from its neighbours by the addition of a fine gateway or carriageway to the north-east, with cut-stone dressings forming a quasi-pediment and introducing a touch of sophisticated Classicism to an otherwise unassuming range. The house, together with further houses on the road, is of social and historic significance, representing the development of the historic core of Johnstown in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries.