The Cottage and Ten Steps Including Stone Rubble Steps and Retaining Walls to Front

A pair of cottages dating from around the mid-18th century, located in Lansallos, Polperro. The cottages are built into the hillside with stone rubble construction. The left-hand cottage is rendered with pebbledash, while the right-hand one is simply rendered and painted. They have slate roofs with gable ends and a large rendered chimney stack on the left-hand gable. The cottages follow a mirror-image one-room plan and incorporate cellars. They are accessed via a series of ten stone rubble steps and retaining walls leading to a first-floor entrance. The front has a symmetrical three-window arrangement. The ground floor has a C19 two-light casement and a C20 casement with top lights on either side of two flights of steps, with a central entrance likely leading to a store. The parapet above the central entrance has been altered with concrete blocks. The first floor has two C20 two-light casements, the right-hand one with glazing bars, flanking the central entrances, both with partly glazed early C20 and late C20 doors. The second floor has three two-light casements with glazing bars; the central window is divided by an internal partition and the window heads break the eaves with raking roofs. The interior was not inspected.