Jeffery'S Cottage And The Flat

Jeffery's Cottage and The Flat is a house and adjoining former fishermen's cellars and stores, dating from the 18th century or possibly earlier, with heightening that occurred around the early 19th century. The walls are made of granite rubble with granite dressings, and the roof is covered with grouted scantle slate, featuring a dressed granite chimney on the left gable end and brick chimneys on the other gable end and the party wall.

The building has a long rectangular plan, originally consisting of a two-room house on the left, with later additions for fish cellars and net-basking cellars with a loft on the right. The eaves of both sections were raised, likely in the early 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an overall six-window front facing southwest. The original two-window front of the house on the left has an approximately central doorway, featuring a late 19th or 20th-century ledged door and four-pane sash windows in 18th-century openings. The later building on the right has original doorways on the left and right (now fitted with windows), a central ground floor window with a reused 17th-century two-light head of a mullioned window, and a large buttress on its left. The left-hand doorway has an old ledged door, while the other door and windows are from the 20th century. An old photograph in the possession of the occupier shows the house with a lime-washed front wall around the door and ground floor windows, forming a rectangular panel, which was a traditional treatment in fishing villages.

Inside, the house retains an unspoiled interior with 19th-century carpentry and joinery details. The left-hand fish cellar features a cobbled floor with runnels leading to an underground wooden vat for collecting oil pressed from pilchards. There are also holes for beam ends about one metre from the floor in the rear wall.