Puckaster

Puckaster is a large cottage ornée built in the early 19th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The structure is made of stone rubble and originally had a thatched roof, which has since been replaced with tiles and features wooden fretted bargeboards. The cottage has 1 to 2 storeys and an irregular plan. It has a rounded corner with a gabled dormer that includes fretted bargeboards and three casement windows. The ground floor features a 20th-century six-light bay window supported by rustic columns. To the left, there is a projecting two-storey bay with similar windows.

On the garden front, there is one dormer and a section with a projecting half-hipped roof adorned with fretted bargeboards. This side includes one casement window with keystones and a later ground floor bay with French windows. To the right, there are two gabled sections and a later 19th-century angled bay. The front of the cottage has a projecting pentangular bay with dormers and fretted bargeboards, along with a doorcase featuring a fanlight positioned at an angle beneath it. Following this is a gable with fretted bargeboards and casements, and a projecting gable with fretted bargeboards as well. The first floor has a three-light casement, while the ground floor has a four-light window.

To the left, there is a later 19th-century extension of two storeys and attics, featuring a half-hipped roof with fishscale tiles and a front with one plain doorcase and three casements. Inside, the cottage contains an early 19th-century plastered Neo-Classical frieze, likely created shortly after Lord Elgin brought marbles from the Parthenon to England, along with early 19th-century doorcases and overmantels. Puckaster is considered one of the more significant early 19th-century detached villas in the Undercliff area of the Isle of Wight.