3 Farm Cottages, Dalhousie Mains

2 Farm Cottages at Dalhousie Mains are late 18th century farm cottages that have been enlarged and altered over time. They consist of two single-storey pairs of three-bay, rectangular-plan cottages built from tooled sandstone rubble, featuring droved and stugged dressings, with long and short quoins.

For Numbers 1 and 2, the northwest entrance elevation is nearly symmetrical, with gabled windows breaking the eaves at the third bay from the right and in the outer left and right bays. There is a window in the third bay from the left, a modern glazed door in the penultimate bay to the right (Number 1), and a timber door in the penultimate bay to the left (Number 2). The southwest elevation is asymmetrical with a gabled roof and an off-centre window to the right, along with a harled addition on the outer right. The southeast elevation is nearly symmetrical, featuring three harled, piend-roofed additions that project forward. The northeast elevation is asymmetrical with a gabled roof, an off-centre window to the left, and a harled addition on the outer left.

For Numbers 3 and 4, the southeast entrance elevation is nearly symmetrical, with gabled windows breaking the eaves at the third bay from the right and in the outer left and right bays. There is a four-pane window in the third bay from the left, and boarded timber doors in the penultimate bays to the right and left, with a four-pane window flanking the left door of the penultimate bay to the right. The northeast elevation features a gabled design with a bull's-eye window off-centre to the right and 20th-century harled additions on the outer right. The northwest elevation is obscured by 20th-century additions and alterations, while the southwest elevation is asymmetrical with a gabled roof and a modern window off-centre to the left, along with 20th-century additions on the outer left.

The cottages predominantly have 12-pane timber sash and case windows, except for uPVC windows in Numbers 2 and 3. The roofs are covered with graded purple-grey slate and feature galvanised steel ridges. The gableheads, ridge, and wallhead stacks are harled and coped, with circular cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods. The interiors were not seen in 1998.