3 Farm Cottages, Pinkie, Manderston

2 Farm Cottages in Pinkie, Manderston, date from the later 19th century and have undergone some alterations and additions. They are a single-storey row of cottages with an attic, featuring nine bays and incorporating the Pinkie smithy. The exterior is made of squared and snecked stugged sandstone with stop-chamfered droved dressings around the margins, while the side elevations are constructed from harl-pointed rubble. The rear of each cottage has harled later additions, and stone mullions are present throughout.

On the southwest elevation, the nine bays include a central gabled porch with an intricate pierced barge-board and square-plan supporting columns that taper towards the base. The porch has a shouldered lintel and a boarded door with wrought-iron ornamental hinges, topped by a 2-pane letterbox fanlight. Each of the flanking bays features a tripartite window, with a bipartite window located in the gabled dormer above in the attic. The three outer right bays mirror this arrangement, while the inner left bay has a bipartite window at ground level. The outer right has a gabled bay with a bipartite window on the first floor. The three-bay group on the outer left mirrors the three-bay group on the outer right, except for the porch and a split boarded door.

The northeast elevation has a rubble addition projecting from the outer right, along with harled additions at the center of each cottage. The windows are timber lying-pane sash and case style, and the cottages have a slate roof with brick stacks. The dormers feature timber barge-boarding with kingposts and timber finials.

The interior was not seen in 1995, but there is a furnace in place in the smithy, which is part of the outer three-bay group on the left. A timber ladder provides access to the attic storey. An iron turning wheel is located in front of the smithy.