ABSTRACT
Inside, the kitchen floor is paved, the sitting room timbered, the spiral wood stair leads to and through ledged and braced doors to the bedrooms. All the windows are small-paned sashes sliding vertically or sideways. The sitting room window is constructed ingeniously to be dismantleable and to permit passage into the front garden. The walls are of brick, the steep roof is tiled. The chimneys are robust. The two end cottages are given bow windows to denote the rank of the owners. Although only a few steps from the sea at high tide, each cottage is as weatherproof and snug as a wellfound fishing boat. Today the terrace is listed - rightly. The coastguards have gone. The cottages since the 1960s are holiday homes with electricity, bathrooms and indoor WCs and at night television blinks its blue light through the Beatrix Potter window panes. But to the sailor half a mile out there is no visible change and to the passer-by very little more.
