32-38, DOCK STREET

32-38 Dock Street consists of houses with warehouses and workshops, now used as offices and workshops. They were built around 1790 and converted around 1980, likely by the joiner John Kendall. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond on the Kendell Street facade and in random and English bond on Dock Street, topped with a stone slate roof and featuring a three-flue stack on the left side facing Kendell Street.

The structure has three storeys and ten first-floor windows, with the two on the left being blind. The windows have 20th-century flush wood frames, small-pane sashes, and stone sills, with the top-storey windows being smaller. On the ground floor, from right to left, there is a blocked doorway that was formerly No.30A, two windows, a wide round-arched opening for No.32 with double doors, a window, a blocked doorway, and a door with an overlight in a plain wood surround (No.36). There is also a sash window with margin lights, a round-headed door with a fanlight (No.38), two windows, and two blind windows.

On the left return facing Kendell Street, there is a stone plinth, slightly recessed sashes with glazing bars, brick wedge-lintels, and stone sills, along with a continuous sill band on the first and second floors. The spacing of the windows suggests that the Kendell Street facade was originally a townhouse, although the former central entrance has been blocked.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, it is noted that John Kendall was involved in building workers' housing from 1780 onwards. He purchased the field here and constructed 18 back-to-back houses in Kendell Street behind this range. He sold the remaining land to James Cooper in 1793, who built 16 blind-back houses, some of which were positioned against the rear of this block. An 1847 Ordnance Survey map indicates the central entrance with steps, a forecourt garden wall, and a gateway on the east side of No.38 facing Kendell Street.