Stone Cottage

Stone Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a cottage, dating from the mid or late 17th century. It features whitewashed rubble walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes a 20th-century chimney stack. The building is two storeys high and comprises three bays.

The entrance consists of a plain boarded door set beneath a double segmental-arched wooden lintel, which is framed by a 17th-century gabled stone porch that includes side seats and a lamp recess. To the right of the porch, there is a blocked doorway. The cottage has fixed casement windows with glazing bars in plain reveals, all under wooden lintels; notably, the ground-floor right window is a smaller firewindow. A slate dripmould is present over the left ground-floor window.

At the rear, there is a glazed 20th-century door and sash windows, some of which are in their original openings, while one is located where there may have been an upper-floor granary doorway. Stone Cottage is historically significant as the birthplace of the dialect poet John Richardson in 1817. An adjoining barn has been converted into a house called Piper House, which was the original name for Stone Cottage, but this structure is not of interest.