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The Crusoe Hotel was built in 1824 as a granary, storing produce such as grain and potatoes before being loaded onto sailing ships bound for the likes of England, France and the Netherlands. Returning vessels would use pantiles as ballast, hence the East Neuk characteristic of pantile roofs. The end of the building closest to the sea was used as an inn and the ground floor room next to the road was made into a tearoom in 1920, Its license being granted on the condition that no liquor be sold. Before the Second World War it was a hairdressers run by Margaret Dick, whose father owned the hotel. Mrs Fred Horne, who taught in the Durham school before she got married used to get a Marcell Wave. The small door in the wall next to the pier was a toilet, built in 1888 for the convenience of the fisherman using the pier.