173, Beach Street

This is a two-storey house with attics, likely dating from the 18th century but with a replacement facade from the early to mid-19th century. It was probably originally part of a larger house, later subdivided, and is situated alongside numbers 171 and 175. The house is constructed of brick, rendered with stucco, and has a tiled roof with a small brick chimney stack on the ridge and a larger, cement-rendered chimney stack to the rear.

The building appears from the roofline to have been originally part of a larger property including numbers 171 and 175. The north, or entrance, front features a large three-light dormer window with six panes to each light, a moulded cornice, and end pilasters, providing a view of the sea. The parapet has stone coping, and the first-floor windows are 12-pane sash windows set within moulded architraves. The ground floor has a six-pane sash window on the left side, complete with louvred wooden shutters secured by unusual iron catches shaped like a sailor’s head with a straw hat. The right-side doorcase has pilasters and a cornice, and includes a 20th-century door. A stuccoed plinth is also present. The south side of the house is gabled.

The interior has not been inspected.

According to an Ordnance Survey map from 1872, number 173 was in separate ownership from the adjacent properties. Further, numbers 173 and 175 were more recently under the same ownership.

The building is designated at Grade II for its apparent origins as part of an earlier, possibly 18th-century house alongside numbers 171 and 175. It retains an early to mid-19th century stuccoed facade and sash windows, and its seaside character is emphasised by the large attic dormer, providing a view of the sea, and the distinctive sailor-head shutter catches. It also possesses strong group value with other listed buildings within a designated conservation area.