2-10 Salthouse Road

A terrace of nine cottages built in 1846 and subsequently altered. They were constructed for the Furness Railway Company to house its workers. The cottages were originally built of red sandstone, but are now largely pebble-dashed and stuccoed, with graduated slate roofs and sandstone capping to the ridge. They are two storeys high, and each cottage has a single window to each floor. The cottages step down in reflected pairs to the right of number 2. Numbers 2, 3 and 4 retain more original features, including quoined doorways, dressed lintels, and projecting sills. Each pair features doors together, flanked by square-headed windows, with smaller, centralised windows on the first floor. Later doors and various casements are present, with number 9 having a 16-pane sash window. A broad stack is located at the right end and at each step in the roofline.

These cottages are historically significant as the first row built after the arrival of the Furness Railway; the company requested their construction on 10 January 1846, aiming for a budget of no more than £100 per cottage.