Island House

Island House is a net shed, dating from the early to mid-18th century, that has been converted into a house. It is currently unoccupied. The building is constructed of painted and rendered stone rubble, with a slate roof and hipped ends. There are rendered brick chimney stacks in the hipped ends.

The building is rectangular in plan, and it has end stacks and end entrances at a higher ground level. It sits on a steeply sloping site, with four storeys and an attic facing the harbour front, and two storeys and an attic facing Warren Street. The building is built directly on rock.

The harbour-facing elevation has a regular three-window arrangement. It features two rectangular 19th-century casements with glazing bars, flanking a central two-light 19th-century casement. Upper floors have 19th-century 12-pane sashes set beneath brick segmental arches. There are two attic dormer windows, with almost flat roofs, containing a 12-pane 19th-century sash on the left and a three-light casement with glazing bars on the right. A lean-to porch is located on the left end. The Warren Street elevation shows 20th-century fenestration.

The interior has not been inspected. The harbour walls and quay are located directly to the south. The harbour side elevation has remained unaltered since the mid-19th century, and a photograph taken around the 1860s by Lewis Harding, featured in A Lanyon’s The Rooks of Trelawne (1976), provides a useful record.