Abbey Cottage, Bridge Street, Coldingham

Abbey Cottage, located on Bridge Street in Coldingham, dates back to 1840 and has undergone various additions and alterations since its construction. This two-storey, three-bay cottage features a symmetrical front with Jacobean-style strapwork and has additional structures at the rear. The front is constructed from coursed and stugged cream sandstone, with sandstone ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are finished in coursed render. The building includes a base course and stugged quoins.

The southeast entrance elevation showcases a studded timber panelled door set within a gabled porch that projects at the center. The door has a shouldered surround and decorative carving surrounding an oval panel dated '1840', with thistle and fleur-de-lys motifs above, and an urn-shaped finial atop the stepped and scrolled gablehead. Flanking the entrance are four-light canted windows at ground level, with decorative carvings on the parapets—a foliate frieze to the right and a stylised floral frieze to the left. The first floor features tripartite windows aligned in the outer bays.

On the northwest rear elevation, there is a full-height gabled wing to the left and a single window in the bay to the right. The front of the cottage has three- and four-pane timber casement windows, while the sides and rear are fitted with four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. A small rooflight is present on the front. The roof is covered in grey slate, with stone-coped skews and stepped skewputts. The front features corniced and paired sandstone apex stacks, along with an apex stack at the rear and various circular cans. The building is equipped with cast-iron rainwater goods, which are bracketed to the front at the eaves, and decorative sandstone water spouts beneath the canted windows.

The interior was not seen in 1999. The property is partially enclosed by rubble boundary walls, with an iron pedestrian gate at the front.