Numbers 36, 38, 40 And 42 Including Attached Loomshop

Numbers 36, 38, 40, and 42, including the attached loomshop, are a row of eight back-to-back cottages, now functioning as four through houses, dating from the late 18th century. The buildings are constructed of watershot masonry with dressed quoins and feature a stone slate roof. They are two storeys high with four first-floor windows.

The north-east front has two sets of paired doorways with tie-stone jambs, flanked by four-paned sash windows that have plain stone surrounds and lintels with tooled decoration, which is repeated on the first floor. The left-hand return wall has a coped gable and a stone stack, while there are two additional brick stacks along the ridge. The rear of the building has the same window arrangement as the front but includes an inserted window from around 1984 with concrete surrounds above the doorway of No 38.

The loomshop, which is attached at right angles to No 42, features six doorways with monolithic jambs on the ground floor and six sash windows on the first floor. It has a mono-pitched roof.

Inside No 42, there is an original narrow staircase located between the back-to-back wall and two original simple fireplaces with raised monolithic jambs, one of which has a basket-grate. This row of cottages is an important example of working-class housing, largely retaining its original window features.