Cobblestones Restaurant

The building is a restaurant, originally a house and shop. The rear section dates to the early 17th century, while the front range was built in the mid-to-late 18th century, with alterations made in the mid-to-late 19th century. The rear range is timber-framed, with gable ends clad in red and grey brick on the ground floor and tile-hanging above. The front range is constructed of chequered red and grey brick and has a plain tile roof.

The building comprises two parallel ranges: the rear range is four timber-framed bays, featuring a continuous jetty to its former front elevation. The front range may have been built with a shop at the right end of the ground floor, which was altered in the 19th century. It is two storeys high and the rear range is two slightly lower storeys with a garret.

The front elevation has a red brick plat-band and an Ionic-modillioned wooden eaves cornice. It has brick end stacks in English bond, with a brick stack to the left of the rear range’s centre, featuring a recessed round-headed panel. A regular three-window front has a pair of four-paned sash windows with a central mullion towards each end, and a single central four-paned sash. All these windows are in open boxes with red brick dressings and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. A pair of sash windows with panelled shutters is located at the right end of the ground floor. A C19 rectangular bay shop window occupies the rest of the ground floor, with a moulded cornice and central half-glazed double doors with narrow margin lights. A door with two flush panels, two fielded panels, a four-light rectangular fanlight and a flat hood is accessed at the right gable end of the rear range. A short two-storey rear wing extends to the right. A rear lean-to also exists.

Inside the rear range, exposed timber framing is visible, along with chamfered beams and gunstock-jowled posts. A brick fireplace with a shaped back and wooden mantleshelf is located at the left end of the first-floor in the left-central bay, with a similar fireplace on the ground floor below. A straight, early 19th-century staircase features turned balusters. The roofs are clasped-purlin: the rear range has windbraces and vertical queen struts to the collars, while the front range has cambered collars.