6, Whiting Street

6 Whiting Street is a house that has been converted into offices. It has a core that dates back to the 17th century, an early 19th-century front, and 20th-century rear extensions. The building features a timber frame with a brick front, except for a rendered panel on the left side that displays an oversized auctioneer's hammer and surveyor's rule in high relief above the jetty of No. 5. The slate roof is adorned with a paired modillion eaves cornice.

The exterior of the building consists of three storeys and a cellar. It has a two-window range, with 12-pane sash windows on the first storey and 6-pane sash windows on the second storey, all set in plain reveals with flat gauged arches. The ground storey features an Edwardian shop window with glazing bars only in the top lights. There is a six-panel door in plain reveals, complete with a rectangular fanlight and a recessed foot-scraper on the right.

Inside, the cellar has old render over random flint, stone, and brick, with a timber ceiling supported by joists set on edge. The timber-framed interior is arranged in two ranges parallel to the street. The ground storey has an early 19th-century layout, featuring a long passage leading to the rear and a staircase with stick balusters and a moulded handrail. The passage is lined with low square Jacobean panelling that has moulded muntins, and the rooms have boxed-in main beams.

On the first storey, the principal front room is panelled throughout and has a plain moulded cornice, with raised early 18th-century mouldings on the panels. Similar mouldings are found on the door frames and two-panel doors. The rear room boasts a fine bolection-moulded fireplace surround, which has a blank panel above and is coved below the cornice, featuring a narrow oil painting of a seascape on the slope—an unusual arrangement. The attic is rendered with blocked fireplaces, and there is one window, likely Edwardian, in the north wall that has Gothick tracery at the head and small-paned casements. A few main 17th-century timbers are exposed on the upper storey.