Barclay Lodge

Barclay Lodge is a house built around 1820, originally known as Seacoal House. It served as the Shore Inn around 1823 and became a vicarage for the Church of St Peter in 1867. At the time of the survey, it was operating as a hotel. The main building is constructed of Flemish bond brick with a painted ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings, while the porch sides are rendered. The left side of the main building is made of rubble, and there is an additional bay with render and brick dressings. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and features brick chimneys.

The house has three storeys with three windows, and the left addition has two storeys and one window. The right side, facing North Bridge Street, has two storeys and a basement with five windows. The rear elevation has three storeys and four windows, and the roof is U-shaped.

The north elevation facing Barclay Street features a central shallow porch supported by painted fluted Doric columns and a plain entablature, although the sides are blocked and rendered. The entablature is partially obscured by a late 20th-century signboard and sun canopy. Internal steps lead up to a renewed glazed door surrounded by late 20th-century ceramic tiles. The elevation has a low plinth, bands at the ground, first floor, and eaves, and projecting painted quoins. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are topped with flat stone lintels, except for the second-floor windows under the eaves. There are blind windows in the third bay, and the window to the left of the door has lost its glazing bars. The eaves cornice and blocking course are present, and the hipped roof has a truncated central ridge chimney.

The right return to North Bridge Street features an ashlar basement with five windows. There are steps leading down to a basement door, a first-floor band, and a deep eaves band. The ground floor has canted bays flanking a central window, all with plain cornices, but all windows have been renewed. The rear elevation includes a low plinth, floor and eaves bands, and a door inserted on the right. There are two wide ground floor windows, with the left being blind and the right being tripartite with upper glazing bars. The upper floors have four windows, with the two on the left being blind, renewed casements on the first floor, and sashes with glazing bars on the second floor.