56, Church Street

A pair of cottages and workshop, later converted into a house, was built in the mid-18th century with early 19th-century additions and 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of coursed millstone grit with tooled dressings and has a stone slate roof, featuring four stone stacks and one brick stack.

The plan is of two single-fronted cottages, single depth, forming an L-shaped house of single room depth, incorporating a later wing to the rear.

The street facade has an irregular two-window arrangement, with quoins visible on the right side. A former off-centre doorway, now with a 20th-century glazing bar casement and small fixed window above, has a flush ashlar surround. To the left is a three-light glazing bar sliding sash window, and to the right a similar, smaller three-light window within a flush ashlar surround, beyond a single doorway with a similar surround and a 20th-century door. The first floor has two three-light glazing bar sliding sashes, the right-hand one being smaller and set within a flush ashlar surround.

The left return, facing Thorpe Street, has a single three-light glazing bar casement on each floor. A lean-to catslide extension, set back to the left, has a single 20th-century bow window and quoins on the left. The right return includes a single garret window with flush mullions and eight-pane casements. The former roofline is visible below the garret window.

The rear facade shows a variety of window openings, including a two-light flush mullion window at first-floor level. A former 19th-century workshop wing to the rear has two nine-pane glazing bar casements on the first floor and a 20th-century garage door in the rear gable.

The interior was not inspected.