Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a building that is believed to have served as the Sexton's house for the Church of St Mary. It was constructed around 1880 by architect J L Pearson, who also designed the church. The cottage is made of snecked grey limestone ashlar with sandstone dressings and features slate roofs with gabled ends. It has gable end and axial stacks with sandstone ashlar shafts; notably, the stack at the east gable end has set-offs and dismantled shafts.

The overall plan of the cottage is L-shaped. The front right-hand projecting wing contains the entrance and stair hall to the left, with a front room to the right. Behind the front room is a kitchen/living room, and a short wing to the rear left includes a scullery and back porch. There is also an integral single-storey outhouse wing extending further left, which contains a wash-house, coal house, and privy, along with a low-walled enclosure at its gable end. The cottage is designed in the Victorian Gothic style.

The exterior is two storeys high with asymmetrical gabled elevations. The west front features a projecting gabled wing to the right, which has a 3-light stone mullion window on each floor and a doorway to the left. The doorway has a 2-centred chamfered stone arch with a hoodmould and a plank door, now enclosed within a 20th-century glazed gabled porch. The left-hand return to the north has two staggered gables; the right gable contains a stone cross-mullion transom stair window, while the left gable has a 3-light stone mullion window. The right-hand (south) return is gabled to the right and has a 4-light stone mullion window on both the ground and first floors, with a blind wall to the left. The rear (east) elevation features a large projecting gable end stack with set-offs and a truncated porch doorway to the right, along with a contemporary integral single-storey outhouse wing to the right (north). Most of the windows have been altered, with plate glass replacing the original leaded panes.

Inside, the cottage includes a staircase with stick balusters, a roll-moulded handrail, and newels topped with ball finials, along with plank doors.