Swiss Cottage

The Swiss Cottage is a house, built around 1840 and later subdivided into two houses and a flat, with a former shop. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a Lakeland slate roof, ashlar dressings, and yellow brick chimneys. The building is designed in a chalet style, with an H-plan, consisting of a front and rear block resembling two chalets connected by a narrow bay.

The two-storey, three-window front has a shop on the right side. The shop features narrow pilasters and a bracketed cornice above a glazed door and overlight, and a shop window with two rows of four large panes of glass. There are 48-pane sash windows to the left and in the outer bays of the first floor. The centre of each floor has small, concave-sided, diamond-shaped windows with small panes. The first floor is jettied, supported by shaped wood brackets with a wood floor-level band. The roof has deeply projecting eaves supported by shaped and pierced wood brackets with curved pendants.

The returns have similar windows, some of which have been renewed, and round-headed windows in the recessed linking section on the right return. The gables feature decorative bargeboards. A rear upper-floor addition located on higher ground is not considered to be of particular architectural interest.