Start Bay Inn

The Start Bay Inn is likely a 17th-century public house, extended in the 18th or early 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of painted and pebble-dashed stone rubble with a thatched roof, featuring gable ends. The roof of the 20th-century extension is hipped. The building has lateral and gable-end stacks with pebble-dashed shafts. The plan is L-shaped. The original core is a long north range, running east-west, with a lateral stack at the centre of the south side and another towards the east end. Internal partitions have been removed and the west end extended. An 18th or early 19th-century southeast wing, with a gable-end stack, features an outshut to its inner west side, and a single-storey 20th-century extension along its south end, which returns to the west. The asymmetrical elevation incorporates 20th-century casement windows, some with old slate sills, and 20th-century doors, including one with an open-fronted porch with a slate lean-to roof on the north front. The three-window east front, facing the sea, has circa early 20th-century eight-pane sashes with boarded shutters on the first floor. Inside the north range, there are no exposed features, and the roof structure has been replaced.