Cross Cottage

Cross Cottage is a 2-storey school building with a slightly lower house forming a south wing, creating an L-shaped plan. The walls are made of red brick, accented with yellow-brick raised quoins. The roof is slate, featuring bands of fish-scale slates and fret-cut barge boards with finials, along with a ridge stack and inserted skylights on the house. The entrance to the house is located in the gable end, which has a plain gabled porch with panelled doors set under a freestone lintel.

The windows are segmental-headed 2-light casements with small-pane iron-frame Gothic glazing bars. On the east side wall, there is a single hooded window on each storey, positioned under a gablet in the upper storey. The west side wall features two windows in the lower storey, a similar window in the upper left, and a single-light iron-frame window in the upper right, all located beneath the eaves. On the left side of the house, there is a panelled door leading to the school room, accompanied by a 2-light iron-frame casement beneath the eaves.

The west gable end has a similar window in the upper storey and a pointed ground-floor window with wooden Y-tracery. The east gable end showcases three stepped, pointed ground-floor windows with freestone hoods and foliage stops. The outer windows are fixed, while the central window is wider and features a horned sash window with Y-tracery glazing bars. In the upper storey, there are two pointed windows with Y-tracery, and in the gable, there is a freestone shield displaying 'FAP' (Francis Aspinall Philips) in raised letters, above a scroll that bears the date 1857. The rear (north) elevation includes ground-floor pointed windows with Y-tracery on either side of an external stack that has been reduced to eaves level.