worker's house

Terraced two-bay two-storey former coastguard house, built c. 1870, now in private domestic use. Rectangular-plan, lean-to porch to east. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, smooth rendered corbelled chimneystack, painted smooth rendered projecting eaves with rendered soffit supported on moulded brackets to west, exposed rafter ends to east, moulded cast-iron gutters. Painted smooth rendered walling, painted plinth. Segmental-headed (west) and square-headed (east) window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two (west) and six-over-six (east) sliding sash windows; square-headed painted timber pivot windows to first floor and porch. Square-headed door opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, tooled granite step, wrought-iron boot scraper. Centre house in terrace of five, communal yard to east with two-bay single-storey rendered outbuilding, pitched slate roof, painted vertically-sheeted timber door; former wash-house attached to outbuilding, painted six-over-six timber sliding sash window, painted vertically-sheeted timber door; cast-iron water pump; outbuildings bound yard from strand to east.

This former coastguard's house is one of an attractive terrace which form an interesting group with their associated boathouse to the north. Finely design, they take the form of an enclosed community, and have maintained their shape despite changes in use including being occupied by the British Army during the Civil War. The retention of much original fabric is also notable. Built to serve the port, they are an important feature within the architectural and social heritage of Greenore.