4 Amisfield Cottages, Amisfield Estate

3 Amisfield Cottages, located on the Amisfield Estate, were built between 1850 and 1860. The complex consists of two symmetrical blocks, both single-storey and designed in a vernacular style. The buildings are constructed from squared and snecked rubble made of local brown conglomerate, known as clinkstone, with light-grey sandstone dressings that are stugged and droved.

The western block contains two cottages with a six-bay gabled design. The doors, originally plain boarded and without fanlights, are flanked by windows that have been enlarged to bipartite in the outer bays, featuring wooden mullions and concrete lintels. There are hoodmouldings above the doors and smaller windows, and small windows are present on each gable. The rear of this block has lean-to extensions on the outer bays and two small central windows.

The eastern block originally comprised four cottages, now reduced to two, with a total of 14 bays. The end bays project to the south and have piended roofs. A central pend bisects the block, and the front (south) elevation features symmetrical openings. The doors were originally two-leaf boarded, and all smaller windows have hoodmouldings. Other windows have been enlarged to bipartite with wooden mullions and concrete lintels. Tiny windows are found on the returns of the end bays, and there are additional windows on the outer return elevations, also with hoodmouldings. The rear elevation is symmetrical, with lean-to extensions on the outer bays flanking a bipartite window on the outside and two small windows on the inside. Modern garages have been added on either side of the central pend.

The fenestration is primarily timber sash and case, with some windows featuring four panes and others with twelve lying panes, possibly original to the eastern block. The rear elevation mostly contains two- or four-pane windows that open at the top.

The roofs are covered in grey graded Scotch slate, with the eastern block having a piended roof and the western block featuring a gabled roof with skews. Both blocks have symmetrical ridge stacks made of ashlar, with projecting copes and plain cans.

Additionally, there are coal sheds, which form a semi-circular block of eight sheds constructed from random rubble with stugged and droved sandstone dressings. These sheds have an ashlar skew and a coped mono-pitch slated roof that slopes inwards, and they are currently semi-derelict.