172 Main Street, Pathhead

172 Main Street in Pathhead is a later 18th century single-storey cottage with a rectangular plan and six bays. The exterior is made of coursed tooled yellow sandstone, featuring a rubble base course and ventilation bricks above, along with tooled long and short quoins.

The northeast elevation, which is the principal front, has a six-bay layout. There is a flagstone step leading to a timber panelled door located off-centre in the third bay from the left, which is a replacement for the original 15-pane glazed interior door. To the left, there are two square windows, while to the right, there are three smaller square windows that are slightly irregular in height. All windows have flush cills and margins, and are topped with heavy lintels. The gables feature stone skews and a coursed ashlar stack on each side. There are new ventilation cans and a small chimney located off-centre to the right on the ridge.

The southeast elevation has a blank gable that adjoins a rubble garden wall. The southwest elevation was not visible in 2000, and the northwest elevation also features a blank gable end.

The cottage has four-pane timber sash and case windows, a pantiled roof with ridge tiles, concealed guttering at the eaves, and a metal downpipe to the left of the door. The interior was not seen in 2000.