Church Park Cottages

A terrace of six cottages, formerly coastguard cottages, was built in 1866. The cottages are constructed of stone rubble with white painted brick dressings and dressed stone quoins. The end walls are slate-hung, and the roofs are steeply pitched slate with gabled ends, creating six gables over the first-floor windows. The cottages have two storeys and a symmetrical six-window frontage. They feature casement windows, with two-light windows on the first floor and three-light windows on the ground floor. The ground floor glazing bars are missing from No. 3, and the ground floor window of No. 5 has been replaced. The windows have painted brick flat arches and jambs. Four projecting gabled porches face paired doorways for the central two cottages and single doorways for the end cottages. These porches have three-sided brick arches with chamfered jambs and small panels above displaying house numbers. The inner doors are boarded and have ornate iron hinges. Red brick ridge chimney stacks are present. A quoin on the left-hand corner is inscribed "Church Park Cottages 1866". The cottages were built as coastguard housing, reputedly to address tobacco smuggling on Waterhead Creek opposite.