3, Quay Walls

3, Quay Walls is an early 18th-century granary store, partially disused when originally listed, and later converted into apartments. The building is constructed of uncoursed rubble sandstone, with a rendered and painted front elevation, and has a steeply-pitched pantiled roof with slate eaves courses. It has three storeys facing the Quay Walls and four storeys to the rear, where a rearward wing encloses a courtyard. The front range is eight windows wide, with two wide entrances from the Quay Walls and an external staircase leading to a central first-floor doorway. A passageway through the walls at ground level provides access to a lower ground floor and the rear courtyard. The interior features open galleries on each level, supported by a central row of timber posts. The Quay Walls form part of the Elizabethan walled defenses of the town, and No 3 is built into them, likely representing the town's earliest surviving granary.