Little Crosthwaite Cottages

Little Crosthwaite Cottages, originally four cottages now converted into three, were built in the early 19th century for workers of the Mirehouse estate. The cottages feature slate rubble walls with a roughcast front, topped by a graduated greenslate roof and roughcast chimney stacks. They are two storeys high and consist of two bays each, with Nos. 1 and 2 now combined into a single cottage. Each cottage has a gabled front and plank doors set in round-arched plain openings, although the door to No. 1 has been blocked with a window inserted. The ground floor has casement windows beneath Yorkshire sash windows. The rear of the cottages features Yorkshire sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds, set under brick relieving arches, while similar windows above do not have arches. There are also some smaller 20th-century windows on the upper floor.