Tower Cottage — Heilbhic [Helvick]

End-of-terrace single-bay two-storey coastguard cottage, c.1840, on a corner site retaining some original fenestration with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor, and single-bay single-storey return to west. Part refenestrated and extended, c.1990, comprising two-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to south-west. Now in private residential use. One of a group of five. Shallow pyramidal roof (gabled to porch; pitched (shared) to return) with slate having chamfered corners, moulded red clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks (one shared), and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves (timber eaves to return). Flat felt roof to additional return. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills, 2/2 timber sash windows, and louvered timber false external shutters. Square-headed window openings to first floor remodelled, c.1990, with no sills, replacement glazed timber French doors, c.1990, to north, and replacement timber casement window, c.1990, to south. Square-headed window openings to additional return with uPVC casement windows on concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door, c.1990. Set back from line of road on a corner site with grass verge to front, and unpainted rendered boundary wall to north.