Cottingley Bridge House

Cottingley Bridge House is a house, now divided into two separate residences, dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with dressed quoins, and has a stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high, with cellars beneath, and originally presented a symmetrical facade of seven bays, though the central three bays are set back from the outer two bays, which have quoined angles. The main doorway has monolithic jambs and a chamfered surround, above which is a square window with a nine-pane fixed light. To the left of the doorway, at mezzanine level, is a twelve-pane sash window, intended to illuminate the staircase. The outer bays have sash windows with architraves and projecting sills on both floors. Decorative gutter brackets are present. The gables are coped with kneelers and stacks, with an additional stack situated on the ridge where the fifth and sixth bays meet. The rear of the house is L-shaped, with a projecting wing to the left, featuring a doorway with tie-stone jambs to the right of a two-light sash window with eight-pane sashes. The first floor of this wing originally held two-light and three-light windows. The recessed central three-bay facade has a central doorway with monolithic jambs, and two-light, flat-faced sashed mullioned windows on each floor; the ground floor windows have recessed mullions. The right-hand return has two bays of sash windows and a large external stack to the rear kitchen.

The interior of No. 1 features a sitting room with a plastered cornice and anthemion frieze, windows with architraves and shutters, and doorways with six-panel Neo-Classical mahogany doors. The first floor contains two 18th-century fireplaces, one with a fluted entablature, casement-moulded cornice, and a decorative cast-iron grate, and another featuring a false-ogee lintel with a roll-moulded surround. No. 2 has rooms with good moulded cornices, and retains original beams. There is an arched doorway with a console keystone and impost that leads to a dog-leg staircase, characterised by gun-barrel turned balusters and a deep-moulded handrail with similarly moulded newels. The stair hall has a deep moulded cornice. The first floor contains a fireplace with a false-ogee lintel, and another with monolithic jambs, a stop-chamfered surround, a frieze decorated with an urn and festoons, and a dentil cornice.