The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from coursed coal measures sandstone, featuring ashlar dressings, quoins, and coped gables with moulded kneelers. The roof is stone slated and the building has an L-plan layout.

On the south elevation, the house has two storeys and attics, arranged in three bays. The central doorway has a moulded stone surround and a projecting moulded keyblock, with a continuous dripmould that steps up over the door. Flanking the doorway are 19th-century single-storey canted bay windows topped with hipped leaded roofs. Above these, the first floor has plain sash windows set within flush stone frames. There is a gabled attic dormer in the centre bay, featuring a 20th-century casement window within a 17th-century surround, also beneath a dripmould. The rear and side elevations still show 17th-century windows, some of which are chamfer mullioned and have dripmoulds above them.