The New Quay Inn

The New Quay Inn is a public house located at No. 8 King Street in Brixham, dating from the early 19th century. The building features rendered front and left side walls that are likely part solid and part timber-framed, while the rear wall, facing a public alleyway, is made of painted stone rubble. It has a slated roof and a red-brick chimney on the right gable end.

The structure is three storeys high with a garret and a basement that opens directly onto the alleyway due to the sloping site. The façade is two windows wide, with an additional window in the carved left side wall facing King Street. The ground floor includes a pair of six-panelled doors set within a single doorcase, flanked by pilasters and entablatures. To the right, there is a window with a 20th-century louvre, and to the left, a twenty-paned fixed sash window with a door immediately to its right, which has four flush panels. The upper-storey windows are eight-paned sashes. The rounded left side wall features an eighteen-paned fixed sash window to the left, with an entablature above that includes a panelled frieze. There is a blocked doorway to the right, also with flanking pilasters and an entablature. The upper floors have barred sash windows, with six over six panes on the second storey and eight over eight panes on the third storey. The rear wall contains barred sashes and small-paned wood casements, along with two gabled dormers. A photograph by Francis Frith from 1922 shows the building as the New Quay Inn, highlighting its rounded corner and tile-hung design.