Backstone Gill Cottage

Backstone Gill Cottage is a small farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the early 18th century. It has been slightly enlarged and altered over time. The exterior features cream-painted random rubble with large quoins and a green slate roof, with stone slate on the outshut. The building has a single-depth, two-unit plan, along with a lean-to porch and outhouse added to the center and right side of the front.

The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows. The lean-to porch, which covers a doorway offset to the right of center, includes a doorway on its left side and a small square four-pane fixed window in the front wall. To the left of the porch, the ground floor has a small square two-light casement and a one-light fire-window to the left of that, both featuring renewed joinery. On the first floor, there are two widely-separated small square two-light casements. The left gable displays a large square corbelled chimney. The rear of the cottage has through-stones and a small window on the first floor. The right gable wall shows two courses of prominent through-stones, a small rubble lean-to outbuilding at ground floor, and a small window to the left.

Inside, there are two large lateral beams in the house part to the left, and the staircase rises from the rear left corner.