NHER 40210 (Building record) - The Other House/Skeet Cottage/The Poachers, Front Street

March 1985. Listed Grade II.
Listing description excerpt for The Other House/Skeet Cottage ('Pair of cottages attached to the east of Mostyn [NHER 46973]')
"Pair of cottages. 18th century. Red brick with black headers. Flemish bond, red pantiled roof. Two storeys, four bays...Ground floor brick plinth, first floor moulded brick platband, dentil eaves cornice. Two blocked first floor windows. Single casement dormer with glazing bars to cottage to west. Two end stacks."

Listing description excerpt for The Poachers ('Cottage attached to pair of cottages to east of Mostyn')
"House. 18th century or earlier. Pebble dash on brick, red pantiles. Two storey, two windows. Single ground floor and two first floor sashes with glazing bars. 18th-century six-panel door with two upper panels glazed. Brick dentil eaves cornice, steeply pitched roof with raised brick parapet gables. East gable has two blocked attic fire windows suggesting pre-1700 date. Lean- to attached at east."

Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 6 August 2021.

March 2004. Field Observation.
Visit by E. Rose (NLA).
Confirmed date of pair, the bricks have diagonal skintlings (pre 1770) but window blockings are later.
Roof of pegged taper purlins and crude rafters suits early 18th century date.
Brick floor.
Later catslide to west cottage and 2 storey extension to east cottage.
However, the former single cottage is in fact of clunch not brick.
Its gable fire windows have a late appearance; the south slope of the gable has been raised in brick tumbling, but the north slope has been cut off.
This could be an 18th century cottage with roof altered in 19th, but interior of roof was not accessible and no other features of interest on interior, except blocked doorways on two levels connecting with the pair to the west.
Local story that this was once a public house.
E. Rose (NLA) 10 March 2004.