15 Bryansford village (Wyllie Cottages)

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

One of a pair of, picturesque, two storey semi-detached houses of 1907, with gabled dormers and open porches. The house is set on the NW of the main road running through Bryansford village.

The front (SE) façade is symmetrical. To the ground floor centre is a gabled open porch, with timber supporting piers rising from low rendered wall to the gabled roof with overhang, decorative barges, tie beam and finial. With the porch is a modern timber and glazed door. To the left of the porch is a relatively large window with tripartite frame made to resemble sash, but actually possessing top hung openers. The windows has a moulded in/out surround. To the right of the porch is a similar window. To the first floor are two gabled half-dormers with barges, tie beams and finials as porch. Within each is a relatively small window with frame made to resemble sash with vertical glazing bars, but actually having openers as ground floor frames.

The W gable is blank. The roof overhangs to this gable and has a tie beam and finial as porch.

To the left at the rear is a large modern looking extension, single storey, flat roofed extension. This ‘extension’ may be original, but its present appearance is the result of a recent renovation.* To the first floor of the rear façade of the main house there is a single four pane window.

The front façade and gable are finished in lined and painted render with bevelled quoins. The rear façade and extension are finished in limestone chip pebbledash. There is a granite panel high to the left of the front façade which reads ‘Wyllie Cottages 1907’ (situated between No.15 and 17). The roof is covered in natural slate to front. The roofcovering appear to be asbestos. Two rendered chimney stacks. The stack to the SW (shared with No.17) appears to have been rebuilt recently. Cast iron and PVC rw goods.

Part rendered, part rubble-built wall enclosing small garden and Tarmac driveway to front.

*The 1970s OS map does not indicate any kind of extension to the rear of the property.

Historical information

This house is one of a pair, built in 1907 for workers employed within the Roden Estate.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Picturesque, two storey, semi-detached house, with gabled dormers and open porches, one of a pair built in 1907. To the rear there is a modern single storey flat roofed extension. The windows to the front have modern frames made to resemble the original sash versions.