Quay Cottage

Quay Cottage is an 18th-century house, likely originally a service wing to a larger property with a road frontage. The walls are painted or rendered rubble, with some slate hanging to the first floor. It has scantle slate roofs on two levels, adjoining the adjacent property No. 59 at the right (east) gable end with a brick chimney, and adjoining a gable end with a hip at the left. The roofs retain many early 18th-century crested clay ridge tiles, including hips. The house has a single-depth plan of three rooms, with the floor level of the room adjoining No. 59 at a lower level. A flue is located within the rear wall of the left-hand room.

The cottage is two storeys high, plus an unlit attic. The south front is irregular, with two windows. Around the late 18th century, 16-pane hornless sash windows were installed to the right-hand part of the first floor, with flush wall boxes and thick meeting rails. The left-hand window on the first floor is paired with two adjoining 16-pane sashes. The area above the left-hand window is slate-hung and blind but a round-headed window opening was recently rediscovered on the ground floor. Ovolo-moulded joist ends are visible under the slatehanging. The ground floor has a 9:6-pane casement with a doorway to the left, a 2-light casement to the right of the middle, and a further doorway with a 20th-century window to the right. The west, hipped end, overlooking the quay, features a wide central window opening with a 20th-century 2-light casement on each floor; the ground floor opening was originally wider.

Inside, there is a small stone hearth in the middle room, three 18th-century 2-panel doors, bowtell moulded beams on the first floor, and original lapped and pegged high-level collars to the original pine roof structure. Quay Cottage is an interesting 18th-century building exhibiting rare examples of 18th-century ridge tiles.