Harbour House

Harbour House is a house in a row, dating from the late 18th century, with later modifications from the 19th century and a back range that dates to the late 17th or early 18th century. The building features Flemish bond brickwork, squared and coursed Portland stone, and has tile and slate roofs.

The structure is a parallel-range building, with an early range behind a rebuilt front block. The front elevation is three storeys high with an attic and has three windows. It includes two flat-roofed dormers with two lights above nine-pane sash windows, a large square flat-roofed Victorian oriel window with a modillion cornice, and a twelve-pane sash window. The ground floor has two four-pane sash windows. All the sashes are set into brick voussoirs within painted reveals and have stone sills; the ground floor sashes also feature a stone keystone.

To the right, there is a pilaster doorcase with an open pediment that contains a six-panel door beneath a radial fanlight, accessed by four nosed steps with a simple iron handrail. The steps rise to the level of an ashlar plinth. A plain string course runs at the level of the bottom of the oriel, and there is a thin sill band. The ends of the building have blocking and parapets above a stone modillion cornice, and there are large stacks at the gables.

The rear range, constructed of stone with a slate roof, is also three storeys high with an attic. This section has a swept-down roof and is set forward from one bay on the left, which is made of brickwork. It features two closely set early eight-pane sash dormers above two twelve-pane sashes in flush moulded boxes, with brick voussoirs and stone sills at three levels. The set-back section has six-over-twelve-pane sashes in reveals. Both parts of the building have brick saw-tooth dentil eaves.

The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. This property is the grandest in a line of buildings facing north across the Quay, located at the convergence of Trinity Road and Trinity Street.