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Coastguard station complex comprising two terraces of two-storey former coastguard houses, built c.1865. East-west terrace of five houses with two bays over three bays, north-most being three over three bay, some with gabled porches to front, and lean-to and recent single and two-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear. Terrace terminated at east end by three-bay house. Pitched artificial slate roofs, felt to flat roofs, with rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC and aluminium rainwater goods. Rendered walls with plinth. Square-headed window openings having concrete sills and replacement timber and uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings and one round-headed door opening with replacement timber and uPVC doors. Pitched roof and lean-to outbuildings to rear of each house. North-south terrace three two-bay two-storey former officers' houses to west, now in use as private houses, having lean-to side-entry porches to front. Hipped replacement slate roofs, with slate to porches, rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having red-brick quoins and smooth rendered walls to northmost house. Square-headed window openings having red-brick voussoirs and jambs and granite sills, with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Replacement fittings to south-most house and some rear elsewhere. Square-headed door openings with rubbed red brick voussoirs, granite stepped approaches having battened timber doors. Eight-bay single-storey L-plan block of former wash-house, turf store and former outside toilet to each house, having lean-to and pitched slate roof, red brick chimneystack, rubble stone walls with brick quoins, square-headed window openings with granite lintels and sills, brick surrounds, replacement eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash window, round-headed door openings with brick voussoirs and jambs and granite steps, and recent square-headed doorways. Rubble-stone boundary walls to north having brick piers with chamfered granite capping. Single-bay boathouse to north, built c.1910, having pitched slate roof, and brick, stone and rendered walls, square-headed openings with red-brick voussoirs and surrounds and granite sills.
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