April Cottage, Stainrigg

April Cottage is a later 19th-century single-storey, three-bay cottage with a gabled wing at the rear, forming a T-plan. It has a later lean-to addition at the back. The front and southwest side are constructed from squared and snecked tooled sandstone, while the northeast side and rear are made of harl-pointed sandstone rubble. The building features lightly droved sandstone ashlar dressings, overhanging timber bracketed eaves, and ashlar quoins. The openings have long and short surrounds with stop-chamfered details, sandstone mullions, and projecting cills. A gabled porch is present at the entrance.

On the southeast elevation, there is a step leading to a boarded timber door located centrally at the ground level. The projecting gabled porch features carved, banded timber columnar supports, a half-timbered gablehead, and timber bargeboards. There are bipartite windows in the flanking bays.

The northeast elevation has a single window centered in the front wing, with another single window offset to the left of center in the single-storey wing that is recessed to the right.

On the northwest elevation, the gabled wing is advanced at the center, featuring a single window in the bay to the right. There is a small window in the lean-to addition attached to the right.

The southwest elevation has a single window centered in the front wing, while the outer left side is a blind elevation to the lean-to addition.

The windows are fitted with plate glass and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has timber bargeboards. A central sandstone ridge stack with circular cans is present.

The interior was not seen in 1998.