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The Cottages — Cork Road

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The Cottages — Cork Road
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Detached three-bay single-storey with attic former almshouse, built c.1820, with gable-fronted projecting central bay to east and canted bays to north and south. Currently unoccupied. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks having platbands, timber bargeboards to gables and projecting eaves with cast-iron rainwater goods. Slate roofs to canted bays. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, cast-iron diamond pane pivot windows set in timber frames. Square-headed door opening to north elevation of projection with tongue-and-grooved door and stone flags. Set back from road with rockface to rear. Wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth to road front.

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