1, The Quay

1 The Quay is a Grade II listed office building in Dartmouth, originally part of a house, constructed in 1893, likely designed by E.H. Back, the borough surveyor. The building features mixed construction, with a timber-framed show front, while the other walls and the ground-floor front are made of grey limestone rubble, red brick, and Bathstone dressings, topped with a flat roof.

The exterior consists of three storeys and has a one-bay ornamental front, designed in an eclectic Elizabethan style similar to York House. The ground floor is finished in red brick and includes a painted stone doorway and side light, both framed with ovolo-moulded surrounds. The original door has six faceted panels and a plain overlight. The upper floors are jettied and project forward as a bay window from the front of York House. Each floor features a 2-light mullion-and-transom window with original horned sashes that do not have glazing bars. Below the windows, there are criss-cross braces, and the framing panels are filled with full-width slates that have toothed edges, alternating in grey and purple. The jetties are supported by shaped brackets, with joists that project through moulded cornices. The building has a framed and slated parapet above the flat roof.

The interior has not been inspected but is expected to be of interest. This building is part of a distinctive group of Victorian structures on South Embankment that complement the genuine 17th-century buildings in the Quay area. It was constructed alongside York House, No. 1 South Embankment, providing an additional lower bay to the front.