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worker's house — Coastguard Houses

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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, painted smooth rendered corbelled chimneystack with clay pots, painted smooth rendered projecting eaves with rendered soffit supported on moulded brackets, exposed rafter ends to east, moulded cast-iron gutters, cast-iron downpipe. Painted smooth rendered walling, plinth to west. 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 porch and first floor. Square-headed door opening to porch, painted timber eight-panel door, granite step. One of a terrace of five, communal yard to east with two-bay single-storey painted smooth rendered outbuilding, pitched slate roof, square-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors; large concrete water tank to west of outbuilding.

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