7 Farm Cottages, Swinton Hill

3 Farm Cottages, built in the mid-19th century with later alterations, consist of three separate ranges of two-storey cottages connected by tall rubble walls that form the rear elevations of ancillary structures. The first two cottages (Nos 1 & 2) have four bays, while the next four cottages (Nos 3, 4, 5 & 6) have eight bays, and the last two cottages (Nos 7 & 8) have four bays. The cottages are constructed from squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone, with droved sandstone dressings, quoins, and long and short surrounds to the openings. Sandstone mullions are present in the canted windows, which feature projecting cills. Gabled and skewputted dormers break the eaves across all cottages.

On the southeast (entrance) elevation, Nos 1 & 2 each have a boarded timber door located in the bay to the right, accompanied by a letterbox fanlight and a stop-chamfered surround, with a gabled window above. A canted window is positioned at ground level in the bay to the left, with another gabled window breaking the eaves above. To the right, there is a square-headed opening and a tall rubble wall linking to the adjacent lower range. For Nos 3, 4, 5 & 6, each cottage features a timber door at ground level in the left bay (with part-glazed doors for Nos 3, 4 & 6) and a single window above. A canted window is located at ground level in the right bay, with a gabled dormer breaking the eaves above. A tall rubble wall and a square-headed opening to the right connect to the adjacent range. Nos 7 & 8 also have a timber door at ground level in the left bay (with a part-glazed door for No 7) and a single window above. A canted window is found at ground level in the right bay, with a gabled dormer breaking the eaves above. There is a lean-to addition recessed to the outer right of No 8.

The northwest (rear) elevation is regularly fenestrated, with a projecting gabled wing at the rear of each cottage. Ancillary structures, which form screen walls to the front, are set between and link each range.

The cottages feature 2-, 4-, and 6-pane upper, plate, and 2-pane lower timber sash and case windows. They have grey slate roofs with raised stone skews and cast-iron rainwater goods. The regularly spaced chimney stacks are corniced at the ridge and apex, with octagonal cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. A continuous rubble-coped wall encloses the garden at the front of the cottages.