Ts Deva (Sea Cadet Corps)

This building is a warehouse, dating to the 1750s or 1760s, that has been converted into premises for the Sea Cadet Corps (TS Deva), along with a dwelling (No.7) and three cottages. The north-western end of the warehouse was rebuilt in the 19th century after a fire, and the cottages are slightly later than the original warehouse.

The warehouse is constructed of brown brick in an irregular bond, with grey slate roofs. The warehouse itself is approximately 40 metres long by 8 metres wide, and stands three storeys high, with the rebuilt north-west end slightly taller than the original 18th-century work. The north-east front of the warehouse has altered first-floor openings and two three-storey bays of loading doors, featuring heavy timber lintels to the second storey. Original framed and boarded double doors are present on the second storey of the south-east bay and the third storey of the north-west bay, protected by hipped slated canopies that originally supported hoisting gear. The second and third storeys each have three-pane fixed-light windows to the south-east of the loading doors, two windows between the south-east and north-west loading doors, and three windows north-west of the north-west doors. The canted north-west corner has altered single loading doors, and there are two ridge chimneys. The north-east front of the cottages has altered doors, a boarded coal-chute between Nos 1 and 3, a blocked opening to No.5, and 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows (one to Nos 1 and 3, two to No.5). A brick ridge chimney is located between Nos 1 and 3, and the roof of No.5 has a plain rendered brick ridge chimney. The north-west end of the warehouse has altered openings to a three-storey bank of former loading doors facing the river, and the south-west face has miscellaneous openings, mostly under cambered brick heads, altered at the first storey. An external steel stair has been added to the north-east face of the warehouse to reach the second storey, and a similar stair serves the second and third storeys from the south-west face.

The interior of TS Deva’s first storey features a brick floor, large softwood cross-beams, joists, and floorboards exposed to the second storey, along with a broad-board staircase. The second storey has boarded floors, cross-beams and some exposed joists and floorboards to the third storey. The third storey contains two original king post trusses with the struts separated from the posts, one 19th-century king post truss in the rebuilt north end, and two brick cross-walls that extend through all three storeys. No.7 has been internally refaced with no noteworthy original features. The interiors of Nos 1, 3, and 5 were not inspected.