Artillery Cottages
Nos 1587 to 1591 Warwick Road
Artillery Cottages lie between two Victorian terraces below the Wilson Arms. The
upper cottage was built about 1600 and is a rare Midland example of a 'long house'
- built on a slope with people living in the upper end and animals in the lower end.
The lower cottage was added about 1800; they were all restored in 1971. The three
cottages originally had separate names: the bottom one was called Rose Cottage, the
middle one Woodbine Cottage and the top one Artillery Cottage, so named because it
was occupied by a gunner in the 19th century. At a later date the whole row became
known as Artillery Cottages. They were restored in 1971.
