Descending Steps From Watch House

Sequence of steep walled steps and small towers of Mediterranean inspiration built onto exposed rock. The walls are of rubble, externally painted white; the towers have hipped red pantile roofs. The steps begin at Watch house and descend in an irregular zig-zag down the steep wooded slope with parapet wall to the downward side. Roughly half-way down is the first roofed structure. This is in the form of a square diminutive gate tower, and has a round-arched entrance to the front with horizontal rectangular light above and slit light diagonally to the L. Here the steps turn a right-angle and pass through a short sloped section wall to the NE via a further arched entrance with simple slatted iron gate. The steps continue to corkscrew downwards to pass through a second, similar structure with open, loggia-type upper section; this has round supporting columns and a corbel course below. The steps emerge below this via a similar arched opening and continue through a final half-gated arch within a walled enclosure on the shore-line; small boiler house structure to the L.