Ralphs Cross

Ralphs Cross is a pair of cottages built between 1864 and 1866 by William Butterfield, featuring alterations. Constructed from red brick with some blue-header diapering and topped with a red tile roof, the cottages have a linear plan consisting of four units centered around a common chimney stack. Each cottage has one room on each floor and a side porch-cum-stair turret.

The cottages are designed in a Vernacular Revival style and stand two-and-a-half storeys tall. They are symmetrical, with the main block comprising two bays and stair turrets set back at each end. The central two-bay section features tall casement windows with three lights on the ground floor and two lights on the first floor, set in slight recesses with depressed triangular heads. At the attic level, there are narrow single-light half-dormers closer to the center, topped with hipped roofs. The windows of No. 1 have horizontal glazing bars, while those of No. 2 have been altered. The steeply-pitched hipped roof includes a large lateral chimney stack in the center.

The wings of the cottages display a diaper pattern on the first floor and each has a single-light stair window in the front wall. There is a doorway at the ground floor of the side wall, with the left doorway now covered by a modern single-storey porch that wraps around from the rear. Above this doorway, there is another single-light window at the top floor, and both wings have matching hipped roofs. The rear of the cottages is rendered and features a single-storey lean-to service extension, which has been raised to two storeys at No. 2.