Lightkeeper's Cottage, St Abb's Head Lighthouse

David and Thomas Stevenson, circa 1862 with later additions and alterations.

LIGHTKEEPER'S COTTAGE: single storey, 4-bay, M-gabled cottage with lower, single bay wing to side. Whitewashed brick; painted dressings. Base course; eaves course; projecting cills. NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded timber door off-set to right of centre; 3-pane fanlight. Single window in bay to left; single windows in bays to outer left and right. Lower wing slightly recessed to right with boarded timber door off-set to left of centre. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay principal block with small window to outer right; single windows to left. Lower wing recessed to outer left. Modern garage block to front. Modern 4-pane timber windows. Grey slate roof; stone-coped skews. Coped sandstone ridge and apex stacks. INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

RETREAT HOUSE AND KEEPER'S HOLD: 2-storey, 4-bay subdivided house with single storey, lean-to additions to sides. Whitewashed brick; painted dressings. Base course; eaves course; projecting cills. NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-storey projection off-set to left of centre with bipartite windows centred at both floors; coped wall adjoined to right obscuring exterior stair accessing 2-leaf, boarded timber door at 1st floor in bay recessed to right; single windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right. Single storey, 2-bay, lean-to additions recessed to left and right with single windows in both bays to left; boarded timber door and single window to right. SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: M-gabled principal block with near full-width, lean-to projection to front. SE (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated 3-bay principal block at centre. Single windows in lean-to additions to outer left and right. NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: M-gabled principal block with lean-to projection off-set to left of centre; 2-storey addition recessed to outer right. Predominantly 12-pane, horizontal-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; some modern windows. Grey slate roof; stone-coped skews. Coped sandstone apex stacks. INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped, whitewashed walls partially enclosing site. Whitewashed rubble, square-plan gatepiers flanking entrance; corniced, pyramidal caps; single gate.