The Quarry Cottage

The Quarry Cottage is a lodge dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features shale rubble walls with shallow brick arches and a one-shaped scantle slate roof that has projecting eaves and verges at the gable ends, which are adorned with serpentine-shaped and pierced wooden bargeboards. The cottage includes a gabled porch and a later outshut at the rear. There are rendered lateral brick chimneys with diagonally set shafts over the original rear wall, as well as a tall chimney over the rear wall of the outshut.

Originally, the layout consisted of two rooms: a kitchen/living room on the left (west) and a smaller parlour on the right, which has a bay window, with stairs located between them. In the mid-19th century, two service rooms were added to the rear within a single-storey lean-to, which was later heightened to create two additional bedrooms in the late 19th century. The cottage is two storeys high, with the south front featuring a projecting gable end on the left, a central gable-ended entrance porch, and the side wall of the parlour set back to the right, showcasing an original 20-pane, two-light window on the ground floor. The entrance porch has a central four-centred arched brick doorway, and above the porch, partly rising into the gable, is another original 20-pane, two-light window. The right-hand gable end (east) has a similar window on the first floor and an original four-light bay window with a slate roof on the ground floor. All four original windows have deep chamfered frames and mullions.

The interior is simple and has seen little alteration, featuring some beamed ceilings, a cast iron range in the back kitchen, and a resited iron grate in the original kitchen. Despite the extensions, the building retains most of its architectural details, including the original windows and bargeboards.