Dock Manager'S Offices

The Dock Manager's Offices, located at Royal Albert Dock, is a Customs House built in 1883 by Vigers and Wagstaffe, designed somewhat in the style of Norman Shaw. The building features pebbledashed brick and stone with a tiled roof and has a basement and two storeys, arranged in an H-shaped plan.

The central range consists of four bays with projecting gabled wings and jettied upper storeys. The ground floor has long, thin segmental-headed sash windows with original glazing bars, framed by red brick architraves and stone keys, topped with hood moulds. There are two rusticated stone round-arched entrance doorways, each surmounted by open scrolled pediments that contain architraved windows. A stone stringcourse runs along the first floor. The upper storey windows break the roofline of the centre to create gabled dormers, while the wings feature tripartite windows with central oriels and lunette windows above. All gables have plain bargeboards.

The roof is topped with a lantern at the ridge, flanked by twin stacks, and there are shafted stacks on the return elevations.