Ramsdale Cottage

Ramsdale Cottage is a house dating from 1726, as indicated by the date on the window lintel, which features the initials E.H.M. The cottage was raised and extended in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The original part of the building is constructed from roughly-squared, unevenly-coursed sandstone, with the eaves raised in a coursed plain style at the front and snecked at the back. The extensions are also built in a snecked style. The roof is pantiled with stone copings and kneelers, and there are brick stacks. An added right rear wing forms an L-plan.

The cottage has a hearth-passage entry on the left side. It is 1½ storeys high with four bays, although the right bay is an extension. The left bay features a boarded passage door with a glazed panel, and to the left of this door is a 2-light small-paned casement window. To the right of the door is a fire window beneath the dated lintel, followed by three reproduction tripartite windows with central opening sections. The upper floor is very irregular and has five 16-pane double sash windows, one of which opens from the side, along with another window with 8 panes. There are traces of former mullioned windows in the central part of the building, and two windows have roughly-reeded-and-margined lintels, likely from the early 19th century. The main house has old brick stacks at both ends, with a modern brick stack on the right. The returns display similar reproduction windows and a French door on the right side.

The rear elevation features a small old lean-to at the extreme right, next to steps leading to a boarded upper-floor door with a glazed panel. Inside, the left passage wall has been removed, creating an open passage to what was once a dairy, now serving as the kitchen. There is a chamfered doorway leading to the house-place, which includes an inglenook with a heck and settle. Old beams in the house-place and parlour are now connected. An early 19th-century stick-baluster staircase rises from the house-place. On the upper floor, a tapering large brick chimney is exposed. A modern small rear lean-to is present but is not of special interest.