Black Cottage Guest House

Black Cottage Guest House, formerly known as Black House, Penrose, and Ingle Nook, is located on Milton Street in Higher Brixham. This house, now operating as a guest house, likely dates from the 17th or 18th century and underwent some superficial alterations in 1913. The building features solid rendered walls and a hipped slated roof at the front. It has two storeys with a garret and is two windows wide. The ground-floor windows have been adjusted to accommodate a doorway on the right-hand side, which has a late 20th-century plank door. The upper storey has late 20th-century wood-framed windows, complete with glazing bars. There is also a late 19th-century dormer with a pent roof, featuring a three-light wood casement window with two panes per light. The cement window-quoins and quoins, likely added in 1913, are similar to those found at No. 19, suggesting that this building may have originally formed the right cross-wing of No. 19 at that time, although it appears to be structurally separate. The interior has not been inspected.