Lower Laithe Cottage Lower Laithe House Lower Laithe West

Lower Laithe Cottage, Lower Laithe House, and Lower Laithe West form a large group of three dwellings located on the north side of Halifax Road in Todmorden. The early 18th century cottage is attached to a mid-19th century house on the west side. To the east, there is a mid-20th century link to a late 19th century coach house, which has been significantly altered and provides additional accommodation to Lower Laithe Cottage, although this coach house is not of interest.

The buildings are two storeys high, with the south front featuring four bays. The first three bays consist of a symmetrical house constructed in ashlar with a stone slate roof. It has quoins, a sill band at the ground floor only, and an eaves cornice. The doorway is framed with an architrave and a segmental pediment. Above the doorway and in the outer bays are sashed windows with plain stone surrounds and projecting sills. The hipped roof does not have a chimney.

The fourth bay is the cottage, which features watershot masonry, dressed quoins, and a stone slate roof. It has a large 5-light 19th century flat-faced mullioned window, with an 8-light double chamfered mullioned window above it. This side shows disturbed stonework near the quoins and has a window bottom of 17th century character from an earlier house. The right-hand return wall has a mid-20th century porch that is in keeping with the style. Above the porch is a blocked first-floor taking-in door to the left of a large double chamfered mullioned window, which was originally transomed with 10 lights but is now reduced to 5 long lights. It is possible that this end of the building was connected to textile manufacture. Below this window is a double chamfered mullioned window of 4 lights, which has had 2 mullions removed and also displays 17th century character. There is a plain solid Venetian window at the apex and one 20th century stack at the division between the house and the cottage.