8, 8A, 10, 12 and 14 High Street, Mill Cottages and workshop in Watson's Yard

A warehouse, two former shops and cottage on the street front, and five cottages and a workshop complex to the rear, dating from around 1850.

The west, or street, front is constructed of hammer-dressed buff sandstone, with the remainder in sandstone rubble. The roof is Kerridge stone-slate, with three stone chimneys. From the left, there is a small entry beneath a cambered stone head, followed by a shop beneath a warehouse featuring loading bays on the first and second floors, topped by a coped gable. Next is a two-storey shop with a window and door framed by three wooden pilasters supporting carved brackets and finials. Above, there are two blocked windows. Number 12 is a two-unit cottage with sixteen-pane sashes under flat wedged heads. A moulded doorcase with a flat hood shelters a four-panelled, bolection-moulded door. Following this is an entry into the yard under a broad, elliptical, rusticated head, with a twelve-pane sash above. The right end is a former shop similar to Number 10.

The south front features five two-storey terraced cottages and a two and three-storey workshop complex at the right end. The construction is in coursed sandstone rubble with a Welsh slate roof on the south side and Kerridge stone-slate on the north side, along with seven stone chimneys. One cottage has been altered, but the others retain four-pane sashes under plain stone lintels and board doors within plain stone surrounds. The main block of the workshop has a symmetrical three-bay front with a gable, featuring eight-pane top-opening casements under plain stone lintels.

Within the courtyard, a short east range is part of the workshop and includes various rectangular openings and an entry. The rear of the three-storey buildings has loading bays in the upper two storeys. Brick structures within the courtyard and added to the workshop are considered to lack group value.

This complex represents the only complete example of a yard layout in Bollington; other, earlier yard layouts are evidenced by blocked arches within the street fronts.