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Detached single-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted lifeboat house or lifeboat station, dated 1885; opened 1886, on a rectangular plan. Closed, 1914. Now disused. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, lichen-spotted concrete or rendered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters. Part creeper- or ivy-covered cut-"Old Red Sandstone" banded tuck pointed snecked "Old Red Sandstone" walls with cut-"Old Red Sandstone" flush quoins to corners. Square-headed opening between rope twist-detailed terracotta panels ("RNLBI";"1885") with mass concrete infill. Square-headed stepped window opening in tripartite arrangement to gable with cut-"Old Red Sandstone" lintels framing fixed-pane timber fittings having horizontal glazing bars. Square-headed window openings to side elevations with cut-"Old Red Sandstone" lintels framing remains of louvered timber fittings behind wrought iron bars. Set in unkempt grounds.
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