Marina Villa, Eldbotle Wood

Mid to later 19th century. L-plan picturesque cottage,

single storey, with attic to main wing and parallel service

cottage. Unfortunate flat-roofed modern extension to S.

Squared and snecked rubble with contrasting ashlar

dressings and base course. Chamfered arrises to

openings.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical under

sweeping eaves forming loggia. Boarded door at centre

flanked by bipartites. Decorative timber barge boarding to

gabled porch at centre, and decorative timber

balustrade and brackets to loggia columns. Cobbled

loggia floor.

N (COAST) ELEVATION: gable end to main house with raised

bay at centre; Tripartite windows at ground and 1st

floor with stone bracketted hood slabs. Eaves swept

lower to left by loggia; unusual timber eaves brackets.

Recessed single storey wing to right with former arched

doorway, (altered to windows), timber bracketted gabled

porch. Various windows. Later extension to right with

2 large windows flanking raised battered stack.

Small rectangular plan, gabled single storey cottage to S,

linked to modern extension and main house by modern

additions.

Variety of glazing patterns to casement windows.

Diamond-pane glazing to bipartite left of entrance door.

Plate glass and modern glazing. Ashlar stacks;

2 unusual stacks with moulded gabletted coping. Green

slates. Modern dormer to W of main wing.