36, East Street

No. 36 East Street is a house that has been converted into a restaurant, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building features a combination of cobbles, split and squared flints, and brick, with the brick dressings covered in pitch. It has a tiled roof.

The structure is three storeys high, with a basement, and has a two-window range. There are steps leading up to a flat-arched entrance, which is set beneath an aedicule formed by a pair of Tuscan columns supporting an entablature with a projecting cornice. A full-height bay with tripartite windows is present, featuring a segmental shape on the ground floor and a canted design above. All bay windows are flat arched. The first-floor windows retain original sash designs, with a 6/6 configuration for the centre light and 4/4 for the side lights. The spandrel of the first-floor bay is faced with brick, while the second-floor spandrel is faced with tiles covered in pitch. There are brick quoin strips at the corners and on either side of the bay, as well as on the jambs of all openings. The windows on the first and second floors above the entrance are camber arched and blocked. The main elevation features guttered eaves. Notably, the wall treatment consists of rough cobbles alternating with split, squared flints. The basement wall is made from a mix of cobbles and brick, with cobbles also present on the right return. The brick stack on the right-hand return and the adjacent wall dates from the 20th century. This listing does not include the ground-floor verandah attached to the front wall of the building.

The interior has not been inspected. Notably, Martha Gunn, the famous bathing "Dipper," lived here. Nos 26-31 and 33-36 East Street form a group, facing onto what is effectively a small square created by the widening of East Street at its northern end. Legend suggests that this square was built on the site of a small inlet of the sea.