82, Queen Street

House, originally a pair of fishermen's cottages, 18th century with later alterations.

The building is constructed of rendered walls, reported to be of boulders and beach cobbles, with a pan-tiled roof and handmade brick chimney stacks. The current house was formed from two cottages by inserting interconnecting doorways. Each cottage was originally arranged as one room up and one down, with staircases rising alongside the rear walls. A two-storey continuous rear outshut was added in the early 19th century. A single-storey kitchen extension to the rear dates from the early 20th century.

The front elevation presents each cottage as a single bay, forming part of a continuous terrace of similar cottages. The front door to the east cottage dates from the 1920s and has a stained glass panel. The front door to the west cottage is similar but more plainly detailed with plain glazing. Windows are hornless sashes with projecting sills. Those to the west cottage are 2-over-2 pane, while those to the east have 1-over-1 timber sashes with multi-paned leaded glazing. A simple dentilated eaves course runs across the front, and each cottage has a brick ridge stack on its left side.

At the rear, each cottage has a flat-roofed dormer lighting the attic. Below this the roof pitch shallows to extend over the two-storey outshut. The rear windows are 20th century casements. The kitchen extension is also not of special interest.

Internally, both cottages retain their own staircases to the first floor and attic, divided from the main rooms by plank doors and planked partitions of broad timber. Most other interior doors, including numerous cupboard doors, are also planked and generally retain 18th or early 19th century strap hinges. Most doors comprise three broad planks, though some within the later outshut have narrower planks indicating a later date. The exposed ceiling joists and floorboards show a similar change in plank width between the front rooms and the later outshut. One replacement interior door in the east cottage dates from the 1920s and retains Bakelite door handles. The west cottage's fireplace was removed when an interconnecting doorway was cut through the chimneybreast. The east cottage fireplace retains a 20th century surround of no special interest.

To the rear of the east cottage stands a fish bait house, a brick-built structure of one-and-a-half storeys with a pantiled gable roof and a short chimney to one corner serving a ground floor fireplace. A taking-in door and a Yorkshire sash window light the upper floor. The ground floor doorway frame incorporates a pair of timber cleats. Ground floor windows are casements.

The pair of cottages dates to the 18th century or possibly earlier. A document refers to one of the cottages in 1784. Constructional details suggest the continuous outshut was added in the early 19th century. In the 1920s the owner of the eastern cottage is reputed to have won a considerable sum betting on the Grand National, using his winnings to build the fishing bait house and to update various aspects of the house, including adding a kitchen extension and installing a stained glass panel in the front door depicting his fishing boat. In the later 20th century the two cottages came into single ownership and were interconnected, though both staircases were retained and the general layout of the two cottages remained unaltered.