Abbey Cottage, Bridge Street, Coldingham

Dated 1840 with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay cottage with Jacobean-style strapwork to symmetrical front; various additions at rear. Coursed and stugged cream sandstone to front; sandstone ashlar dressings; coursed render to sides and rear. Base course; stugged quoins. Stop-chamfered corners to front at ground comprising corbelled, concave niches with foliate stops beneath polygonal angle shafts. Architraved margins to front; sandstone mullions; projecting cills.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: studded timber panelled door in gabled porch projecting at centre; shouldered surround; decorative carving surrounding oval panel dated '1840', thistle and fleur-de-lys motifs above; urn-shaped finial surmounting stepped and scrolled gablehead. 4-light canted windows at ground in bays flanking entrance; decorative carving to parapets (foliate frieze to right; stylised floral frieze to left); tripartite windows aligned in outer bays at 1st floor.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: full-height, gabled wing to left; single window in bay to right.

3- and 4-pane timber casement windows to front; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to sides and rear; small rooflight to front. Grey slate roof; stone-coped skews; stepped skewputts. Corniced and paired sandstone apex stacks to front; apex stack at rear; various circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods (bracketed to front at eaves); decorative sandstone water spouts to canted windows (beneath parapets).

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE: rubble walls partially enclosing site. Iron pedestrian gate to front.