Roberts Yard Including Number 34a

This is a group of five houses, now used as a café and offices, built in the late 18th century. The building was altered in the 19th century and restored in the late 20th century. The construction incorporates brick, stucco, and ashlar, with slate roofs and various chimney stacks.

The main block fronts High Pavement, with Nos. 30, 32, 34A, and 36 forming a continuous range with rear wings that enclose Roberts Yard, which is also linked to No. 34. The street facade is three storeys high and has a seven-window range. The upper floors on the left have five original 12-pane sash windows. To the right, there are two smaller 12-pane sashes, and above them, two 9-pane sashes. The ground floor features an off-centre, round-arched passage entrance with a vermiculated key stone, a mask keystone, and a 19th-century wrought-iron gate. To the left of the passage is a boarded door, followed by two 16-pane sash windows. To the right, there are two doors, one modern and one half-glazed.

Roberts Yard has renewed glazing bar sash windows on each side. The west side displays segment-arched sashes, and above them is a partly rendered attic storey with almost continuous glazing. No. 34, located at the south end of the courtyard, has a reeded wooden doorcase with a cornice on brackets, a renewed door, and an arcaded overlight. Above the door is a segment-arched sash, and above that, a smaller sash.

The front of No. 34, facing the cliff, is constructed of ashlar and is three storeys high with a five-window range. The windows are glazing bar sashes with flat arches. The facade features a string course, a first-floor sill band, a modillion cornice, and a parapet. A central panelled door is topped with a fanlight.

The interior is believed to contain an open cut string staircase with slender balusters and a ramped handrail, along with fielded panelled doors.