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House, still in use, probably built after 1837 by F and R West, Pennan, and possibly extended to the north. It is a two-storey and raised basement house with a gable to the sea, and is built of red sandstone rubble, concrete rendered and lined as ashlar to the east, with painted ashlar margins, some raised. The east frontage has a small timber porch with flanking windows, and to the north is a door and further lean-to timber porch, with three regularly-disposed windows at the first floor. The rear elevation to the west is blank. The grey slate roof has a later rooflight, coped ashlar stacks with thackstanes and ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts. The house is an interesting early example of development housing required as a result of increased prosperity in the local fishing industry. The feus backing into the steep hillside and behind those fronting the shore were created owing to `a demand for new houses' as recorded in the Auchmeddan Estate Survey of 1837. The road which the house fronts was built in response to the need for development, replacing an earlier track some distance to the east. No 18-19 was probably built by the West brothers, belonging to a long established local family, to rent out as small dwellings to local fishermen. The 1891 Census records John West, boat builder and merchant, at number 18 and James, boat builder, at No 19 each together with their families.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)