Numbers 1-6 The Square

Numbers 1-6 The Square are a group of dwellings and farm outbuildings, with one currently serving as a shop. They were built in the late 18th century and have undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are possibly designed by John Carr for William Fawkes. Constructed from coursed gritstone and ashlar, they feature a graduated stone slate roof and are arranged in a U-shaped plan around a courtyard.

The north range consists of a three-storey, two-bay central block that slightly projects forward from the two-storey side ranges. The building has quoins and the central block features a Venetian window on the ground floor set within an arched recess, with a projecting band at lintel level. There are two round-headed windows with sashes and glazing bars on the first and second floors, each with projecting impost bands. Between the first and second floors, there is a small, central, blind round-arched opening, and a blind lunette with an architrave and double keystone is located between the second-floor windows. The eaves cornice leads to a pyramidal roof topped by a stone-arched cupola with a ball finial.

The two-storey flanking ranges include a barn door and 20th-century windows on the left, and two 19th-century houses on the right, one of which retains its original four-panel door and tall four-pane sash windows. The west range has two pairs of carriage arches that are now blocked and house three cottages, which feature 20-pane sash windows or four-pane casements with 20th-century doors. The east range includes shop premises at the southern end. Ridge stacks are positioned above the domestic parts of each range, with three on the west side and five on the east.