High Austby Cottage

High Austby Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with restorations and additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone rubble and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and six bays, with a projecting porch and semicircular stair bays at the fourth and fifth bays. The porch has a wide 20th-century board door with a wooden lintel.

Throughout the cottage, there are recessed chamfered mullion windows. To the left of the porch on the ground floor, there is a narrow light at the far left, a four-light window that has been altered to a two-light window, and a three-light window that has also been changed to a two-light window. On the first floor, there is a small light at the far left, along with two inserted 19th-century windows: one is a side-sliding sash with a three-light wooden frame that retains part of a recessed chamfer on the left jamb, and the other is an eight-pane casement, both with wooden lintels.

To the right of the porch, there is a narrow light in the stair turret, a four-light window that has been altered to a three-light window, and an inserted 20th-century window; on the first floor, there is a four-light window that has been changed to a three-light window. The far right features a large stepped external stack with a rebuilt corniced shaft, a ridge stack opposite the front door, and a smaller stack between the first and second bays. Inside, in bay three, there is a wide cambered-arched fireplace with chamfered jambs and voussoirs.