Augusta Lodge Magnolia Cottage

This is a mid-19th century villa, originally named Augusta Lodge, with a former service wing that is now known as Magnolia Cottage. A later 19th-century range, named Hydrangea Cottage, extends to the south, is in separate ownership, and is not included in the listing. The original plan comprises a cross-shaped range with the service wing to the east.

Architecturally, Augusta Lodge is two storeys and an attic, built of roughly coursed stone with rendered rusticated quoins. The first floor to the north and south is jettied and clad with scalloped tiles. The roofs are steeply pitched, slate, with overhanging eaves, bargeboards and pendant finials to the gables. The chimney stacks are built of rubble stone with grouped shafts in a pattern using red and yellow brick in a free Tudor style. Bay windows are present on the north and south sides, each with a gable. Other windows are recessed, and are two-light casements with glazing bars set in broad rendered rusticated surrounds. A timber-framed porch is located on the north side. Magnolia Cottage, to the east, has simpler detailing, with red brick dressings instead of stone quoins. It also features bargeboarded eaves to the dormers and gables, and chimneystacks, culminating in a steeply pitched gabled roof.

Historically, maps from 1862 and 1908 show the house as St. George's Lodge, and by 1908 the building had been extended south. It has also been known as Slaney Lodge.

The building is listed for its special architectural interest, reflecting its imaginative composition with an extended cruciform plan, jettied gables hung with fishscale tiles and fretted bargeboards, prominent polychrome chimneystacks, and good quality materials including rubble stone dressed with ashlar and red brick. The property is a picturesque ensemble that reflects its seaside setting.