Porters Lodge (Building Number 1/7)

Porter's Lodge, now a police office, is a dockyard building dating from around 1708, with later alterations. It is constructed of stuccoed brick and features a hipped slate roof with brick stacks, part of which is also stuccoed.

The building is two storeys high, with a cellar and attic, and has a layout of four by two and a half bays. It has tall narrow windows fitted with replacement 8-pane sash windows, and flat-roofed dormers that contain 6-pane sashes. The mid-20th century part-glazed doors are located beneath an eaves cornice that runs below the parapet.

On the north elevation, the ground floor has two windows at the center flanked by doors, with four windows above. The west elevation features two recessed and blind bays on the left, along with a small single-storey mid-20th century addition. The right-hand section has its ground floor screened by a single-storey mid-20th century shelter with a pitched, glazed roof, and the third window on the first floor is blind. There are three dormers with a tall brick fire wall on the left side.

Inside, the cellar contains old wooden partitions, cupboards with strap-hinged doors, shelves with ogee-moulded fronts, a wine rack, a shot rack, and chests, along with chamfered beams and joists and a stone flag floor. On the ground floor, some original panelling and a plain cornice can be found in one room. The stair hall features an archway with imposts and a keystone, a doorway with a moulded architrave, and a plain cornice. The full-height stairwell is panelled, and while most original features of the stair have been replaced, the closed string remains, along with original turned balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail between the first floor and attic.

On the first floor, door and window architraves have attached columns and roundels in the corners, along with some panelling. This building is noted as the oldest surviving structure in the Dockyard, historically housing porters who were responsible for the watchmen. It is part of a group with the Victory Gate.