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Detached six-bay two-storey coastguard station, designed 1871; begun 1872; extant 1896, with two-bay two-storey chief officer's house with half-dormer attic (south) and single-bay three-stage "watch tower" (north) on a square plan. Occupied, 1901. Vacated, 1908[?]. Sold, 1910[?]. Partly occupied, 1911. In alternative use, 1914-60. "Restored", 2000-2, to accommodate continued occasional alternative use. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof; hipped gabled artificial slate roof (south) with pyramidal artificial slate roof (north), ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on box eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls on tooled cut-limestone[?] chamfered cushion course on plinth with drag edged tooled hammered limestone[?] flush quoins to corners. Triangular-headed window openings with cut-limestone[?] sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with limewashed boundary wall to perimeter having cut-limestone rounded coping.
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