2 Highgate Terrace

2 Highgate Terrace is a group of four three-storey, one-window red brick cottages, with a two-storey, two-window former gaol at the right end. The cottages have a renewed slate roof, boarded eaves, and modern brick chimney stacks, along with a black painted plinth. They feature small pane sash windows with voussoirs, including 15-pane windows on the second floor and 20-pane windows on the first and ground floors. The entrances have camber heads and boarded doors. Between the third and fourth cottages is a round arched entry to a tunnel passage, which now has a metal door and a plain fanlight.

The former gaol has an old slate roof with a brick stack, and part of it is slate hung. It has a 15-pane sash window on the first floor and a 20-pane window below, next to a similar entrance. The left end is largely shale, rendered at the top where a weaving loft door has been blocked up. The right gable end is pebbledash, while the gable end of the gaol features slate hanging and an attached boarded lean-to shed. A colourwashed passage leads to the shale rear elevation with brick dressings, cambered voussoirs, and modern casement windows. There are brick privy lean-tos for Nos 1 and 3, and a later one for No 4, along with small cellar windows and boarded loft openings that conceal windows. The rear of the gaol is made of shale above rubble and has small pane metal frame windows.

The second floor of the cottages is open throughout and served as a weaving loft. Nos 2 and 3 have been combined into one house. The interior of the gaol retains two cells with barred windows, where chartist rioters were held, and there is accommodation for policemen above.