4 Main Street, Carrington

This is an early 19th century cottage, originally a single storey and five bays long, with later additions and alterations. The exterior walls are constructed from tooled sandstone rubble with contrasting, precisely cut sandstone dressings. The window sills project outwards, and the corners of the corners of the corners are emphasised with quoins.

The front (north) elevation is asymmetrical. It features an 8-pane window in the centre bay and the bay to its right; a boarded timber door sits in the penultimate bay to the left; and smaller windows are positioned in the outer left and outer right bays. A single-storey addition, built of pink sandstone, extends to the right. This addition has a piended roof (sloping on all sides to a central point) and a single window. A coped pink sandstone wall, built of similar stone, extends to the property at No. 5 Main Street (which is listed separately). A harled (rough plaster) addition, with a piended slate roof and no windows, sits to the left-hand side of the original cottage.

The south, east and west elevations were not inspected in 1998.

Most windows are timber sash and case windows, with either 16 or 8 panes of glass. The roof is red pantiled, with a slate course running along the eaves and a terracotta ridge. The gable ends have tall, square sandstone stacks topped with circular cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.

A random pink sandstone rubble wall, with rubble coping, runs between the right-hand bay of the cottage and the addition to the right.

This building is designated as part of a group, alongside Carrington Village, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Carrington Mains Cottages, Carrington Mains Steading, and Carrington Mains Farmhouse (each listed separately). Carrington Village was built to serve Carrington Mains, which is part of the wider Rosebery Estate.