Seabreeze Cottage

Seabreeze Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-19th century, potentially incorporating earlier fabric. It is situated at the end of a row on Mars Hill in Lynmouth. The house is rendered with a thatched roof. It is a single-depth cottage, rising two storeys and originally displaying three windows.

The first floor has a margin-pane French window opening onto a balcony with wooden balustrading in the three bays to the left. To the right of this are two two-light small-pane casements, all set in plain reveals with lintels at a lower level. The ground floor features an early display window containing 20 panes with curved glass returns. To the left of the balcony is a 19th-century door, and to the right, a 20th-century door. Between the upper windows, a broad two-light small-pane casement fills the space. The eaves display a scalloped fretted board projecting from the wall.

The right gable incorporates a stack and a raised verge with slate coping on a kneeler facing forward. A two-light casement matches those on the front at the first floor, and a smaller glass block window is set on the ground floor. The corner of the building is rounded at ground level, and the rear is set on a curved line leading to a recessed outshut. The rear wall features several four-pane sashes and one small twelve-pane sash.

The interior is not generally accessible, although it may hold interest. The ground floor retains some flagstone paving. The room at the end to the right contains a range of features under a bressumer, alongside a bread oven.

The scale of the building indicates early origins, and its position aligns with the earliest settlement in the area. An early photograph by Loveless shows a sixteen-pane sash window to the right of the balcony, alongside only one two-light casement at the upper level.