Wharf Cottage (Now Rose Cottage And Meadow Close)

Wharf Cottage, now Rose Cottage and Meadow Close, is a pair of canal wharf cottages dating from circa 1796, with extensions added in the early 19th century. They were built for the Cromford Canal Company. The cottages are constructed of coursed, squared, and dressed sandstone, with some red brick used in the extensions. They have a graduated Welsh slate roof with lead-roll ridges.

The main front is two storeys and three bays wide, with a single-storey wing extending to the rear right and a later two-storey wing to the rear left. The front has three windows on each floor, featuring projecting sills and plain lintels, likely of an inverted t-section. The window in the left-hand bay (Rose Cottage) is a 12-pane sash, while the windows in bays two and three (Meadow Close) are 20th-century casements with louvred shutters. A hipped roof has two ridge stacks, the one on the right being larger. The left return has a bricked-up door on the right, two part-glazed 6-panelled doors, and 12-pane sashes to each floor of the wing, along with a brick stack on the left. The cottages are included on the heritage list for their group value.