Hazards House and Former Brewery Offices

Hazards House and former brewery offices is an 18th-century house with a public house added to the front, altered and extended after 1865. The building consists of two parallel ranges. The front range is of stock brick in Flemish bond, with the front being stuccoed and covered by a slate roof. It has two storeys and five windows, with a moulded parapet, five cambered sash windows with horns, and moulded brickwork marking the bond between floors. There are six pilasters on the ground floor. A projecting bar front of one storey is stuccoed, with a moulded cornice. To the right is a projecting pediment with pilasters. There are two sash windows without glazing bars, and a two-panelled door topped by a fanlight. The rear range, also of two storeys and a higher elevation, is originally of red brick to the front, with the roof now covered in modern pantiles. A stone coping and a moulded stone cornice are visible on the front elevation, which is otherwise obscured by the front range. The rear elevation is three storeys high, with a dentil brick eaves cornice. There are three 19th-century sash windows with cambered heads and vertical glazing bars only to the upper floors, and two 19th-century canted bays to the ground floor. A central doorcase, possibly from the 18th century, has a wooden hood supported by brackets. The side elevation features two 12-pane early 19th-century-style sash windows and a plinth. Inside the rear range is a 19th-century straight baluster staircase with a dado rail, four-panelled dadoes to the ground and first floors, and two-panelled doors. One first-floor room had walls covered in hessian at the time of inspection, preventing assessment of any underlying 18th-century panelling. The 19th-century range has exposed roof trusses and an elaborate plaster chimney breast decorated with depictions of three-masted schooners. The building is included for the remnants of the 18th-century Hazards House and for its group value with No. 44 West Street.