Wool Room Cottage

Wool Room Cottage, originally the Assembly Rooms and later converted into two cottages, is an early 19th-century building constructed for Joseph Lodge. It features a rubble exterior and a stone slate roof, standing two storeys high with four first-floor windows. The left side has quoins, and there are ashlar door surrounds framing a part-glazed door between the first and second bays, as well as a board door between the third and fourth bays. The windows on the ground floor are 12-pane casements, while the first floor has sash windows with glazing bars. To the left, there is a shaped kneeler and ashlar coping, along with corniced ashlar end stacks. The Assembly Rooms, which once included a musicians' gallery, were built as an extension of the King's Arms Hotel and were historically associated with its rear wing. The main user of the Assembly Rooms was the Askrigg Equitable Benevolent and Friendly Society, established in 1809, which still holds meetings at the King's Arms Hotel. The cottage is included for its group value.