15 Harbour Street

A modest, timber-framed house (now a shop), of two storeys over an unlit basement, probably constructed in the late C17 but with a later shopfront.

MATERIALS: the ground-floor shop has a timber shopfront with plate glass, the first floor has channelled render and the roof is covered with plain tiles.

PLAN: the building is rectangular on plan, its frontage occupying a single bay to Harbour Street.

EXTERIOR: the ground floor comprises a plate glass shopfront with a fascia and awning box of timber. The central door is of plate glass and recessed within a canted lobby with checkered tiles to the floor. There are leaded glass panes to the two outer transom lights of the shopfront. The first floor has channelled render and a single, centrally-positioned two-over-two sash window with plate glass. The steeply pitched roof is oriented with slopes parallel to Harbour Street and a single chimney stack to the rear. It is covered with plain tiles and has timber boards to the eaves, possibly covering a moulded cornice.

INTERIOR: the building has a simple internal layout, with front and back rooms and a chimney stack and newel stair rising against the party wall to the south. Exposed timbers and roof joists suggest a probable late-C17 construction date.