Railway Crossing Gate Keeper'S Cottage

The Railway Crossing Gate Keeper's Cottage is a gate-keeper's cottage built between 1848 and 1850 for the North Staffordshire Railway. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a tile roof adorned with fishscale bands. The cottage is designed in an L-plan and exhibits Tudor style elements. It is a single-storey building with a two-bay range and has coped gables. The windows are fitted with hollow-chamfered reveals and casements that include ogee-moulded mullions.

The entrance features a gabled porch with a Tudor-arched head and a 20th-century door. Inside, there is a Tudor-headed entrance with a moulded arch and a plank door. To the left of the entrance, there is a two-light window. The right side of the cottage, which faces the railway, has a canted bay window under a hipped roof, two three-light windows, and another two-light window. There are two cross-axial stacks with diagonal shafts, one on the left with a moulded cap, and a similar later stack to the right of the bay. The left side of the cottage has a later outshut under a catslide roof.