Lower Birkhouse Cottage

Lower Birkhouse Cottage is a 17th-century, two-storey single cell house combined with a late 18th-century single-storey cottage, now used as one residence. The building is constructed from large hammer-dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. The 17th-century house has a coped gable with kneelers and retains the remains of two-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds that have straight returns, although the sill and mullion have been removed from each floor, which are positioned directly above one another. The north-east elevation includes a double-chamfered mullioned window with six lights on each floor, also with a hoodmould and straight return, though three mullions have been removed from the first-floor window. The south front has a two-light, 19th-century flat-faced mullioned window. Attached at right angles is the 18th-century wing, which may have been associated with textile manufacture, featuring a long window in the gable where all the mullions have been removed. The building has two stacks on each side.