Beach Cottage Quay Cottage Including Quay Walls

Beach Cottage, also known as Quay Cottage, includes quay walls and dates from around the 1870s, although the base of the quay walls likely dates back to the 18th century. The cottages are constructed from roughly coursed faced Killas with granite dressings. The quay walls are made of vertically-set Killas rubble topped with horizontally-coursed Killas rubble. The roof is made of dry Delabole slate with fish scale courses and features projecting eaves and verges. There are gabled dormers at both the front and rear, and a central axial brick chimney sits over the cross party wall.

The layout consists of a double-depth-plan pair of identical cottages, each with a reception room at the front. There are axial passages from the doorways leading to the middle of either end, which connect to cross passages between the rear service rooms of each cottage. The exterior is two storeys high and features a symmetrical two-window south-east front without doorways. The first-floor windows are gabled dormers with brick verges and shallow pointed granite arches above them. The original casement windows include glazing bars. Each end of the cottages has a central doorway with a slate hood supported by chamfered brackets, and an arched window is located in the middle of each gable. The doors are ledged.

The rear of the cottages has similarly detailed features and remains unaltered. The cottages are situated at the back of an irregularly shaped peninsular quay, with quay walls on three sides. These walls were raised in the 19th century to serve as garden walls for the cottages and feature square-edged granite copings.