Self Catering Portloe. Self Catering Portscatho. Cornwall. Holiday Accommodation in Portscatho

Self Catering Holiday Cottage Portloe

Portscatho

9 Coastguard Cottage sleeps 4 people + cot

• Sleeps 4 + cot
• 2 Bedrooms, double & twinet
• Bathroom & Cloakroom WC
• Sea Views
• Parking nearby (100 yards away)
• Front & rear gardens
• 4 minute walk to harbour
• Other beaches a short drive
• Night storage heating
• Saturday Changeover

A pleasant well made Victorian terraced Cottage built to house the Coastguards with a good view out to sea to watch for Smugglers.

9 Coastguard Cottages in Portloe is the end cottage in a whitewashed, south west facing terrace built in 1825 to house the coastguard families. Though brought up to date, it still retains much old fashioned charm. It is a well loved family cottage in a small, pretty and characterful village centred around a tiny working harbour.

The harbour is about 4 minutes walk down the hill and there is a small shingle beach here with rock pools and rocks that are good for fishing from. The larger sandy beaches of Carne and Pendower are just the other side of the headland - about a 7 minute drive away, not at all far, but the lanes are very small!

Interior layout

The entrance door is at the rear of the terrace and opens onto a slate floored hallway with cloakroom wc to the left and understairs cupboard with useful items, kitchen to the right.

The kitchen also has the original slate floor, a large window looks upon the steep rear garden. Pine fitted cupboards containing everything you might need in the way of crockery etc. There is a dishwasher, a fridge freezer, washing machine, microwave and an electric cooker.

At the front of the house the good sized sitting/dining room has large windows overlooking the green valley opposite, the cottage rooftops below and the harbour and the sea. There are two large squashy sofas, coffee table, fine open fireplace with grate (logs stored by front door). A window seat and shelves with lots of books and games. A 14 inch television with Freeview box, dvd and video. At one end of the room a long pine dining table with cushioned bench seating and chairs which will seat at least six.

From the sittingroom a glazed door opens to a sunny, secure patio with outdoor dining furniture and lovely sea view.

Upstairs there is a bathroom with wc, basin and bath with shower over. Also an airing cupboard with immersion heater. Next to this is the double bedroom also to the front of the house with double bed, alcove wardrobe, chest of drawers, original wooden floorboards with rugs. Deep silled window with a view of the sea as before. Also off the landing is the twin bedroom with 3 foot divan beds (and a full sized cot available if required). A curtained alcove wardrobe, chest of drawers and rattan armchair. Deep silled window overlooking the rear garden.

Location

Portloe is a very small fishing village set in two steep sided valleys which come together at a small south east facing cove. Unlike so many coastal villages in Cornwall the landscape has prevented much additional building, so the village remains old fashioned with traditional cottages crowded around the small harbour and a great green unspoilt cliff and wooded landscape all around. In past times it was apparently a busy place for 'free traders' as those who evaded import duties were known and the row of coastguard cottages together with the old boathouse and the head coastguard's house are of clear importance in the layout of things.