Cottage To North West Of Harbour Cottage

This building is a cottage located to the northwest of Harbour Cottage in Boscastle, likely originally used in connection with Boscastle harbour. It consists of two cottages that have been converted into one house. The left-hand cottage dates from the early 19th century and was extended with a second cottage on the right in the mid-19th century. The structure is made of rendered and painted stone rubble, topped with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends, and has brick stacks at both ends and one axial stack to the right of center.

The building has a single-depth plan, with the ground rising to the rear and a basement at the front, which was probably used as cellars. The left-hand cottage likely started as a two-room plan, while the right-hand cottage was added later with a one-room plan. In the 20th century, the cottages were converted into a house with a three-room plan on the ground floor, and the entrance is located in the rear elevation. A one-room wing was added to the rear right in the late 20th century.

The house is two storeys tall with a basement and features an asymmetrical five-window front facing the harbour. There are two low plank doors leading to the basement and a shuttered window opening to the right. The ground floor includes a late 19th or early 20th-century two-light casement window and a 19th-century two-light horizontally sliding sash window flanking a small 20th-century window opening. To the right, there are two late 19th or early 20th-century four-pane sash windows. The first floor has two late 19th or early 20th-century two-light casements in gabled half dormers, with two late 19th or early 20th-century four-pane sash windows to the right. There is also a lean-to outshot on the left-hand gable end.

The cottages are particularly prominent in the picturesque harbour of Boscastle.