1, The Quay

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 THE QUAY 673-1/8/252 (South side) No.1

GV II

Offices, originally part of a house. 1893, probably designed by EH Back, the borough surveyor. Mixed construction; timber-framed show front with other walls and ground-floor front of grey limestone rubble with red brick and Bathstone dressings, flat roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; one-bay ornamental front in the same eclectic Elizabethan style as York House. Ground floor is red brick with painted stone doorway and side light, both with ovolo-moulded surrounds. Original door with 6 faceted panels and plain overlight. Upper floors jettied and projecting forward as a bay window from the York House front. Each floor has a 2-light mullion-and-transom window containing original horned sashes without glazing bars. Criss-cross braces below the windows and framing panels filled with full-width slates with toothed edges, alternately grey and purple. Jetties with shaped brackets and joists projecting through moulded cornices. Framed and slated parapet to flat roof. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest. HISTORY: This is associated with a distinctive group of Victorian buildings on South Embankment which complement the genuine C17 buildings around the Quay area. It was built with York House, No.1 South Embankment (qv) adjoining, providing an extra and lower bay to the front.

Listing NGR: SX8783551329