Black House Crafts Warden Cottage

A pair of houses, located on the west side of Watling Street in Corbridge, dating from the mid-18th century, with the northern house being extended in the early 19th century. The northern house is constructed of roughly-tooled rubble with roughly-tooled quoins and dressings, while the southern house (No. 14) is built of squared stone with cut quoins and dressings. Both houses are roofed with Welsh slate.

The northern house, now subdivided, is two storeys high and has three bays, arranged irregularly. The central entrance is a renewed half-glazed door with a three-pane overlight, set within a wooden doorcase topped with an open pedimented hood. To the side, a similar door serves Black House Crafts, featuring a plain overlight in a plastered, rusticated surround with a vermiculate keystone. Mid-19th century margined sash windows are found in the original openings, each with a tooled lintel; an exception is the shop window on the right, which has two basket-arched lights on moulded pilasters beneath a cornice resting on carved consoles and brackets. The end gables have stacks.

No. 14, to the left, is two storeys high and has two bays. A renewed boarded door with a four-pane overlight sits within a chamfered alternating-block surround in the right bay, above which is a twelve-pane sash window. Sixteen-pane sashes are found in the left bay; all windows feature tooled lintels and slightly-projecting sills. The left gable is coped and features a stepped- and-banded end stack.