No. 9 (Kingsley Cottage) With Forecourt, Retaining Walls And Railings

No. 9, known as Kingsley Cottage, is a house located in Clovelly, likely built in the early 19th century. The exterior is rendered and whitewashed, featuring a slate roof with gabled ends and wide eaves. There are two brick stacks, one on the ridge to the left and another rising from the eaves to the right. A lean-to at the rear also has a slate roof.

The layout includes a central hall with two rooms flanking it: a kitchen on the left and a parlour on the right, with a staircase at the rear. There is a scullery wing at right angles to the rear of the kitchen. The cottage is two storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window front. It has flush-mounted 16-pane sash windows that match the exposed sash boxes and moulded surrounds. The central door opening features a six-panelled door, with the top two panels glazed, and is topped by a gabled hood supported by wooden brackets.

The forecourt is elevated and made of cobbles, bordered by a colourwashed rubble retaining wall, iron railings, and a gate. Inside, the parlour on the ground floor has a front corner fireplace that backs onto the entrance hall, although it is now blocked. The kitchen contains a large gable end fireplace with an original wood surround and mantle. The rear wing is featureless, and the staircase remains in its original position. On the first floor, the room above the kitchen has a chimneypiece in a moulded original stone surround with a later 19th-century grate.

The cottage is named after the author Charles Kingsley, who lived in Clovelly during his father's tenure as rector from 1831 to 1836. Kingsley published "Westward Ho!" in 1855, which features Clovelly.