Gull Cottages

Gull Cottages is a range of five attached cottages built in the 19th century, located on the south side of Landermere Quay in Thorpe-le-Soken. The cottages are constructed of painted brick and feature roofs primarily made of handmade red and yellow clay tiles, with machine-made red clay tiles used only on number 9. The building is a single range facing northwest and has six axial stacks, along with single-storey lean-to extensions at the rear. It stands one storey high with attics.

The ground floor includes thirteen 20th-century casement windows, all set in segmental arches except for the first four on the right, which have straight heads. There are also twelve 20th-century metal casements in flat-roofed dormers. The cottages have six plain boarded doors, similarly styled with segmental arches except for the two on the right end, which feature straight heads. The roofs are gambrel-shaped, and numbers 6 and 7 have a dentilled eaves course.

A stone tablet on the property commemorates Sir William Withey Gull, a physician to Queen Victoria, who was born in 1816 and died in 1890. He was awarded his title in 1872 for treating Prince Albert for typhoid fever. In 1840, nearly all the cottages were occupied by mariners.