The historic building survey confirms the findings of the Desk-Based Assessment in terms of the phasing of the cottages, but has also added considerably to our understanding of the layout of the cottage complex on the eastern bank of the River Par, opposite Rock Mill. The cottages started life as two cottages present by 1839 and occupied by two different families, the discovery of a single sherd of late medieval to early post-medieval pottery suggestive of earlier occupation in the immediate environs if not in the area of the cottages themselves.