3 Farm Cottages, Swinton Bridge End

3 Farm Cottages, located at Swinton Bridge End, date from the late 19th century and feature later additions and alterations. The cottages are two single-storey buildings with attics, forming symmetrical five-bay blocks, with the eastern cottage converted into one unit. The central gabled bays are advanced, and there is a full-length flat-roofed addition to the rear of the western block. The exterior is constructed from tooled cream sandstone rubble with droved sandstone dressings, including droved quoins and long and short surrounds to the openings. The cottages have tripartite windows with narrow sidelights and projecting cills, and crowstepped gables throughout.

On the southeast entrance elevation of cottages 1 and 2, the central gabled bay features a projecting tripartite window at ground level, with a single window centered beneath the apex. Boarded timber doors are recessed in the bays to the left and right, each with a 4-pane fanlight above. There are tripartite windows in the outer left and right bays, with piended bipartite dormers aligned above. Cottage 3 mirrors this design but has a blocked door opening offset to the right of center, which was previously the entrance to cottage 4.

The northwest rear elevation of cottages 1 and 2 has regularly spaced single windows in the full-length flat-roofed addition. Cottage 3 has a single window centered at ground level, with a gabled dormer breaking the eaves, offset to the left above.

The cottages feature 8- and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with grey slate roofs, moulded skewputts, and replacement rainwater goods. There are squat sandstone apex stacks with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1998.

There are ancillary structures made of harl-pointed sandstone rubble with tooled sandstone dressings, including mono-pitched single-storey outbuildings at the rear with boarded timber doors. The interiors of these outbuildings were also not seen in 1998.

The site is partially enclosed by rubble-coped garden walls made of rubble.