Taylor And Sons Sailmakers

An early 19th-century granary, now a workshop, located on the waterside and adjoining a sailing-barge yard. The building is timber-framed and clad in tarred weatherboarding, with a painted corrugated-iron roof. It is constructed on timber piles and has two storeys and six bays. The west elevation features two ground-floor and two first-floor boarded doors. A 20th-century external staircase provides access to the first floor on the north-west side. A four-pane fixed light is visible on the upper floor, alongside an inserted ground-floor light. The waterside elevation has two ground-floor boarded doors and two smaller first-floor boarded openings, which cover fixed-light windows. The north gable retains an original small-pane light to the upper floor. Inside, the building has very substantial spine beams that support the upper floor on a series of Samson posts, with some reused timbers. The roof is a queen-strut design, featuring reused cambered tie beams with straight braces, as well as replaced principal rafters and purlins. The tie beams are marked with large painted numbers, and one to the south also displays a painted red rose. Pencil sketches of sailing ships and steamships, and a view of a Napoleonic fort at Cherbourg, are framed in black paint. An original first-floor door opening retains a timber roller above the threshold.