Rashleigh Cellars Including Salter'S Cottage

Rashleigh Cellars, including Salter's Cottage, are fish cellars that date from the early 19th century and are currently used for storage, garages, and domestic accommodation. The structure is made of partly rendered stone rubble and cob, with a brick and weather-boarded kipper house on the west side. It features rag and scantle slate roofs with hipped ends.

The main range is two stories high and located on the southeast, with a courtyard in front. This is flanked by a narrow two-story projecting wing on the southwest, which contains the kipper house, and a narrow single-story wing on the northeast that is open-fronted to the yard, supported by timber posts. The cobbled yard is enclosed by a front wall that has a central entrance with double doors.

Historically, pilchards were loaded into leaky hogsheads and placed on a wooden platform or gutter against the wall. The fish were then crushed using large stones suspended from long pressing beams, which were slotted into brick niches that remain intact along the northeast wing's stone rubble wall. The herring catch was kippered in the smoking house located in the southwest wing, which is largely intact and has partially restored louvered openings. Storage lofts for nets and tackle are found in the southwest wing, and the cellars were also used to store merchandise like coal, which was landed at the nearby quay of Port Gaverne to the north.

The Rashleigh cellars maintain their largely unaltered plan. Three other cellars are also present to the northwest (Union Cellars), northeast (Venus Cellars), and east (Liberty Cellar).