Byland Cottage Rivendale Hill Dene

Byland Cottage, located on Rivendale Hill Dene, is a former row of six cottages that has been converted into four cottages. It dates from the mid to late 18th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of slobbered rubble, except for Hill Dene, which is rendered, and features painted stone dressings and a stone slate roof. Each cottage originally had a central staircase plan and is two storeys tall with a double front. The central entrance has plain surrounds and six-panel doors. There are two 2-light recessed flat-faced mullioned windows on each storey, although the windows now have 20th-century casements or sashes without glazing bars. The cottages have left or right-hand ridge stacks. No 1 now includes the former left-hand cottage, which was altered in the 19th century and retains only one 18th-century 2-light window, along with a plank door added around 1970. Hill Dene also includes the former single bay right-hand cottage, which has a plank door. The left-hand ground floor window of Hill Dene was lowered around 1900, and the mullion is now missing, replaced with 20th-century casements. The building is included for its group value.