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Pair of semi-detached three-bay single-storey lighthouse keepers' houses with half-dormer attics, built 1860; occupied 1901, on symmetrical plans. Vacated, 1974. Dismantled, 1987. "Restored", 1998, to accommodate occasional use. Replacement pitched artificial slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, chimney stacks now missing, concrete coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite beaded corbels. Tuck pointed granite ashlar walls on cut-granite chamfered plinths. Camber- or segmental-headed central door openings with cut-granite step thresholds, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors having overlights. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in shared grounds on outcrop.
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