Haven Cottage the Moorings

Haven Cottage, also known as The Moorings, is a late 18th-century building located on the north side of Lansallos Quay Road in Polperro. Originally a store and house, it has since been divided into flats. The structure is made of painted and rendered stone rubble, topped with an asbestos slate roof featuring gable ends. A stone rubble chimney stack is positioned on the left-hand gable end, and there is a projecting stone rubble wing at the higher end with a scantle slate roof that follows the slope of the main range.

The original layout is uncertain, but it now consists of a pair of houses built over cellars that are accessible from the harbour at the rear. The building is situated on the side of the harbour, displaying a four-storey elevation to the rear and a three-storey elevation to the front. The front features an asymmetrical arrangement of three windows. The ground floor has steps leading down to a basement entrance on the right, with a 20th-century two-light casement window with glazing bars above. The ground rises to the right, where two flights of stone rubble steps lead up to the entrances of The Moorings and Haven Cottage. These entrances are marked by a four-panel door and a 20th-century glazed door, both sheltered by a continuous slate lean-to hood.

On the first floor, there are two two-light casement windows with glazing bars beneath timber lintels, while the second floor has a two-light casement and a 20th-century window on the right, both also with glazing bars. The stone rubble wing on the right projects forward and has a store entrance on the ground floor at the front, along with a side entrance next to that of Haven Cottage. The front features four-pane sash windows and 20th-century fenestration.

The rear elevation, which faces the harbour, rises from the harbour wall and features a low rendered balcony that projects beyond the harbour walls on the ground floor. This rear elevation is an important aspect of Polperro Harbour and remains largely unaltered. The interior has not been inspected. An early photograph of the building by Lewis Harding dates back to the 1860s.