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worker's house — Saint Mary's Cottages

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Terraced three-bay single-storey former worker's house, dated 1892, now in private domestic use. Lean-to return to east, gabled canopy to door, west elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters on eaves, circular cast-iron downpipe. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond, smooth rendered plinth course, continuous red brick sill course and recessed band to lintel level. Segmental-headed window openings, roll-moulded red brick soffits, painted timber casement windows. Segmental-headed door opening surmounted by gabled canopy, painted timber bargeboards and finial, supported on cast-iron brackets, roll-moulded red brick soffit, plain-glazed overlight, painted timber door with six flat panels, polychromatic tiled entrance; red brick plinth walls flanking entrance. Located on west-facing slope, garden to east, separated from house by concrete lane. Rear yard to east. One of a terrace of twenty former workmen's houses built on height on south bank of river, facing westwards, advanced gable-fronted blocks to end houses with tooled limestone plaques "CAIRNES TRUST, WORKMANS HOUSES ERECTED 1892". Gardens to west, accessed by gates, separated from houses by concrete path, walled rear yards to east, bounded by varied walling, laneway giving access to yards. Steps to north-west giving pedestrian access to terrace.

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