The Old Duke

The Old Duke is a house that was originally built in 1820 for Edmund Kershaw, an engine maker, and it includes three workers' cottages added at the rear in the 1850s. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. It has a single-depth, central-entrance design with three bays and three storeys, along with three one-room cottages that have attics and cellars.

The front elevation is symmetrical, with quoins, a central door that has square-cut surrounds, and six or four-pane sash windows on the ground and first floors, although two of these windows have been replaced by 20th-century casements. The top floor has a continuous workshop window, with most of the flat-faced mullioned lights rendered over. There are gable chimney stacks on the roof. The rear cottages, which are accessed at first floor level, each feature a square-cut door surround, a two-light flat-faced mullion window, and raised eaves to accommodate an additional storey. In 1860, the house was used as a public house known as The Duke of York.