5, The Quay

DARTMOUTH

SX874510 THE QUAY 673-1/8/255 (West side) No.5

GV II

Shop and house. Probably late C18, with alterations of the 1890s, on late C16 property. Flemish-bond red brick with painted stone or stucco dressings; stack in right party wall has rendered brick chimneyshaft with pots; probably slate roof hidden behind parapet. PLAN: Narrow building, end onto the street. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics; one-window range. Ground-floor timber shop front of the 1890s. Doorway to left of 2-light shop window. Plain fascia. Stone pilaster to right with unusually-large fluted stone bracket to wide moulded cornice which is carried over the contemporary shop front of the adjoining property. Upper floors have paired central sash windows under flat brick arches. All are 6/1-pane sashes, the lower ones much shorter than the upper ones. Plat band at second-floor level between painted pilasters up to a moulded cornice over a peardrop frieze. Painted parapet above is broken for a gabled dormer containing a 2/2-pane sash. Hipped front end of roof. INTERIOR: Not inspected but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SX8779951330