Arts, Crafts And Books House Adjoining Cockpit Cottage

The Arts, Crafts and Books house adjoining Cockpit Cottage is a pair of houses, one of which includes a shop, located in Robin Hood's Bay. They were built in the early and late 18th century, with an early 19th-century frontage and a later 19th-century extension. The buildings are constructed from coursed, herringbone-tooled sandstone, while the extension features coursed rockfaced sandstone. They have Welsh slate roofs and brick and stone chimneys.

The layout is L-shaped, with the two gable ends of the original house and the adjoining extension facing the road. The left bay, which is the older section, has two storeys and an attic, while the right bay has two storeys. In the left bay, there are two steps leading up to a six-panel door and a six-pane shop window of early 19th-century style, likely a reproduction. Above the shop window is a small early 19th-century sash window, which is missing its intermediate bars, and a smaller attic casement window. The stone gable has coping and the base of a cut-down stone chimney. The right bay, which is the extension, features a four-panel door on the right and a small sash window on the left. There is a large first-floor canted oriel window with a lead roof and sash windows. Stepped-in kneelers support the gable coping, which has a ball finial on a plinth, and there is a stone chimney in the valley.

The entrance to the house is located on the left return, which appears to be early 18th century with more roughly tooled stone on the plinth. This section may have been raised to two-storey height in the late 18th century and has a central 20th-century glazed door. Flanking the door are early 19th-century sash windows, also missing their intermediate bars, set under extended keyed lintels. There are two similar windows in the right bay, and a rebuilt brick ridge stack.

Cockpit Cottage, which forms the return of the L, is set back on the left and is probably late 18th century. It has two storeys and one wide bay. In the right-hand corner, there is a six-panel door with an overlight featuring glazing bars. Similar windows are found on each floor to the left, both with flat lintels. All windows have projecting sills, and the lead roof ridge is complemented by coping on the kneeler and a cornice-banded stone stack on the left.