Local List: 19th Century miners cottages at Cornham Ford

A terrace of six, single storey cottages, and a mine office, built in 1856 for the Dowlais Iron Company and now visible as low bracken covered footings. They were not built to the traditional terrace design, but alternately protruded 1.4 metres first to the front then to the rear. The two ground floor rooms measured 4.2 metres by 3.6 metres and 3 metres by 3.6 metres. A study of the archaeology and history of peat exploitation on Exmoor’s moorlands mentions the miners cottages and has a photograph of c. 1890 with turf ricks close by. To the southwest is a rectangular platform thought to be the site of the blacksmith's workshop. Age: of its time Rarity: part of Knight industrial estate, only foundations surviving Distinctive Design: interesting, stepped design Historical Association: Knight Estate Evidential Value: will contain archaeological evidence for living accommodation of miners Social Communal Value: not well known Group Value: fairly isolated, but association with adjoining extensive mining landscape Collective Value: with other buildings and industrial activity as part of the Knight Estate