Cottage Adjoining On West The Nook

This is a group of cottages, likely originally three but now two, situated in Tintagel. The easternmost cottage, part of a larger property known as The Nook, probably dates to the early 18th century. A central cottage, also part of The Nook and connected to the adjoining western cottage, was constructed around the middle of the 18th century. The third cottage, at the western end, was added in the late 18th century. The cottages are built from local slate-stone rubble, with a rag slate roof covered in bitumen and with gable ends. There are stone rubble stacks, originally positioned at the right-hand side of the centre, to the left of the centre, and on the left-hand gable end.

The layout has been significantly altered over time. The Nook was built originally adjoining Windyridge to the rear of the right-hand side. This initial cottage appears to have had a single-room plan with a gable end stack on the left. A subsequent addition to the left-hand gable end created a second cottage or room, again featuring an end stack to the left. Around the late 18th century, a third cottage or room was added to the left, also with an end stack. The three cottages were then divided to create the current two, with the central cottage converted into two entrance halls for the flanking cottages. In the late 19th century, a single-storey service extension was added to the rear of The Nook.

The south-facing front has an asymmetrical appearance with two windows. The western cottage has a late 19th or early 20th century four-pane sash window and a partly glazed door on the ground floor, and a two-light casement window above. The Nook on the east has a 20th-century glazed door, a sash window without glazing bars, and a two-light casement window to the right, within a blocked entrance. A half-dormer with a raking roof is visible above. The rear, north-facing elevation which fronts the road contains 20th-century glazed doors and two 16-pane hornless sash windows on the western cottage.

Inside The Nook, there are roughly cut, slightly chamfered ceiling beams. The stack which backs onto the entrance passage has a cloam oven projection and a roughly cut lintel. The roof trusses above the right-hand range have principals partly halved, lap-jointed and pegged at apices and collars lapped and pegged onto the face of the principals. The cottage adjoining on the west has 19th-century ceiling beams and a 20th-century grate in the lower gable end fireplace. The first floor of the western cottage was not inspected.

The cottages form a group with Windyridge.