Capstan Cottage

Capstan Cottage is a Grade II listed house and adjoining cottage, which may have originally served as a fisherman's store. It dates from the 18th century and features mostly painted granite rubble walls with granite dressings. The house has a wheat reed thatched roof, while the front of the cottage has a grouted scantle slate roof and the rear is covered with asbestos slate. There are brick chimneys on the left-hand gable end of both the cottage and the house, and the granite chimney on the right-hand end of the house has been heightened with brick.

The layout consists of a two-room plan for the house on the right and a two-room plan for the cottage on the left, which likely sits over a former fish cellar. The house may have originally included shallow service rooms partitioned off at the rear.

In terms of exterior features, the cottage is single-storey over a basement on the left, while the house is two-storey on the right, both under the same eaves level. The south front is irregular with four windows overall. The cottage has a doorway towards the left, a small window to the left of the doorway, and another small window towards the right. The house has an asymmetrical ground floor with a central doorway flanked by windows on either side. The first floor features a window above the doorway and another window on the right above the ground floor window. There are 20th-century ledged doors and 20th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars. The rear of the building is taller, with the cottage being two-storey at the back and unpainted rubble. It retains original basement doorway and ground and first-floor window openings. The interior has not been inspected.