Old Harbour Antiques

Old Harbour Antiques is a shop and flat built in the late 16th century and early 19th century. The front of the building is brick, timber-framed, and has a pebbledashed finish with a low-pitched roof covered in Welsh slate. The front range is three stories high and has a two-window front with double-hung sash windows. The second floor features windows with two vertical glazing bars, while the first floor has margin-glazed windows. The ground floor features an 19th-century shop front with faience pilasters, stall risers, and a pictorial panel depicting apple picking on the side of the entrance. The shop front is made of hardwood, with a vent grille, turned mullions, and arched heads. A door with etched glass depicting “Smith,” a vase of flowers, and vegetables is present.

The rear block is two stories and an attic, with a gabled roof covered in clay plain tiles, and Suffolk verge boards. It has double-hung sash windows with small panes. The ground floor is partially jettied and formerly had an open rear arcade.

Inside the front range, there is an early 19th-century staircase with column newels. A first-floor room features an ornate 19th-century cornice, a ceiling rose, a marble fireplace with tile inserts, and a doorway at the rear of the shop. The doorway’s head is formed of two jetty brackets; one features a deer carved in the spandrel, and the other supports a post with a full-length female figure wearing a crown and holding a mirror and shield bearing a fesse nebuly. The letters "OENS" or "DENS" are inscribed below. A reused fascia with a trail of pomegranates forms the other jamb. A fascia board fragment on the stairs depicts adorned, bearded human-headed leopards with a cartouche inscribed "E.C."

The two-story-and-attic rear range has a timber frame of two large bays and a narrow bay. The narrow bay originally formed an open passage supported at its center by a chamfered post. At the northeast end is a contemporary arched doorhead supported on a corner post featuring a male figure with a crown and sword, an assumed representation of a female figure. The doorhead features two lamb-like creatures carved and a cartouche with the date inscribed "1588." The northeast side was jettied, and a surviving corner bracket has a crowned male figure with a sceptre standing on a pulpit-like structure in its spandrel. The frame includes stop-chamfered spine beams and bridging joists; jowled posts carrying an end tie beam and one near the center. The roof is of three bays, unrelated to the storey posts, and is 'A' framed with lodged side purlins and arched wind bracing. A truncated brick stack is on the southwest flank.