Abbey Gate Cottages

Abbey Gate Cottages is a pair of cottages, now functioning as a single dwelling, built in 1873 by the architectural firm Paley and Austin for the Furness Railway Company. The cottages are constructed from dressed, snecked red sandstone and feature red tile roofs. The building is an elongated single-storey range with two gabled cross-wings, one of which has an attic storey.

The design includes a chamfered plinth and ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. The projecting gable on the left side has a Tudor-arched doorway to the right of a four-light transomed window, which has casements with glazing bars and a relieving arch above. There is also a four-light attic window and a gable slit beneath a pierced, wave-patterned bargeboard. In the center of the building, a plaque displays 'ABBEY GATE COTTAGES 1873', flanked by three-light windows. The projecting gable on the right is illuminated by a four-light transomed window beneath a slit and pierced bargeboard.

The main range to the right features a door beneath the eaves and a gabled right return. The left end of the main range has a front catslide and a three-light window in the left return. Ashlar stacks are present on each cross-wing, at the center, and on the left end, with grouped octagonal flues on shared bases, although the stack on the right cross-wing has been truncated. A 20th-century flat-roofed addition to the rear is not of special interest.