Gull'S Cottage

Gull's Cottage is a 17th-century house situated in a row on West Looe Hill, West Looe. The external walls are of painted rubble, with lintels made of chamfered oak. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in dry slate. It originally comprised a single-depth plan with a later wing added to the rear right. The cottage is two storeys high and has a three-window front. First-floor windows break the eaves, set under raking dormers. Modern windows include 12-pane 2-light casements and 16-pane horned sashes. The central doorway is topped by a slate hood and has a part-glazed door. A large external front stack is situated laterally, and a rubble end stack is on the right. A single original 2-light oak mullioned window on the rear illuminates the staircase. Inside, three original fireplaces remain. The front fireplace has been partly rebuilt in the 20th century, and the fireplace on the right (now one room) features a corbelled oak lintel, with a similar fireplace in the chamber above. The cottage also contains 19th-century ceiling joists and a late 18th or early 19th-century pegged roof structure.