Cliff Cottage

SX8960 1947-1/6/79 13/03/51

PAIGNTON ROUNDHAM ROAD (North side) Cliff Cottage (Formerly Listed as: ROUNDHAM ROAD Old World Cottage, Holcombe Cottage, Cliff Cottage)

GV II

Small house. Probably late C18. Plastered mass wall; thatched roof with plain ridge, hipped at ends, right-end stack with rendered shaft, rear left corner stack. PLAN: L-plan, built adjacent to and above the harbour and facing away from it. Main range single-depth, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance, rear right unheated wing at right-angles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2-window front with c1930s enclosed porch with hipped tiled roof and half-glazed front door. 2-light small-pane timber casements. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest, including an original roof. HISTORY: Patterson identifies this cottage as the coastguard's cottage noted in 1830 by Octavious Blewitt in his 'Panorama of Torquay' (1831). Paintings and an 1890 photograph of Cliff Cottage (Tully) show a single-storey outbuilding attached at the left end. (Painting at the Paignton Club: 1890-1920; Tully P: Peter Tully's Pictures of Paignton: 1988-: 37).

Listing NGR: SX8940460367