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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.1830, with gable-fronted end bay. Currently in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks having platbands, timber bargeboards to gables and projecting eaves with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cast-iron diamond pane pivot windows set in timber frames. Oriel window to attic with four-paned timber casement window. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-grooved timber door and stone threshold. Set back from road with rockface to rear. Wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth and square-profile piers with wrought-iron gate to road front.

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