Cliff Cottage

Cliff Cottage is a small house, likely built in the late 18th century. It features a plastered mass wall and a thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped at the ends, and has a rendered shaft on the right-end stack as well as a stack at the rear left corner. The building has an L-plan layout, positioned adjacent to and above the harbour, facing away from it. The main range is single-depth and two rooms wide, with a central entrance and a rear right unheated wing at right angles.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a two-window front, which includes a 1930s enclosed porch with a hipped tiled roof and a half-glazed front door. The windows are small-pane timber casements with two lights. The interior has not been inspected but may still have interesting features, including an original roof.

Historically, this cottage is identified by Patterson as the coastguard's cottage mentioned in 1830 by Octavious Blewitt in his book 'Panorama of Torquay' published in 1831. Paintings and an 1890 photograph show a single-storey outbuilding attached to the left end of Cliff Cottage.