Quay House

Quay House is a house, or a group of houses, now used as shops, a restaurant, offices, and flats. It was likely built in the early 19th century, although it has been significantly altered with decorative details added in the 1920s or 1930s. The building has solid rendered walls and a slate roof, topped by a large rendered chimney with decorative red pots. It's arranged in an L-shape, with later buildings filling in the angle.

The building is three storeys high, with a four-window front and a four-window return on the left. The ground floor has five shop fronts with 20th-century detailing including pulvinated friezes and modillioned cornices; the shop front to the right of the Quay has been altered, while the one to the left retains its original window glazing. Horizontal channelling runs between the shop fronts, and a continuous sill line extends around both fronts. The upper-storey windows facing The Quay have moulded architraves, with the addition of cornices on consoles in the second storey. A raised band links the cornices of the three right-hand windows. Between these windows at this level are hollowed-out circular panels; one now contains a clock, and the others have unusual ‘keystones’ at the bottom. Above these, on the third storey, are two small round-headed windows. The right-hand second-storey window on the return front mirrors those facing The Quay, topped with a segmental pediment. There is no third-storey window above it; the other windows to the left are plain. Windows throughout have barred sashes, with 6-over-6 panes on the second storey and 3-over-6 panes above; the window in the outer left-hand window of the return front is 8x8 panes over 4x8 panes. The fronts are finished with a prominent cornice and blocking course. A 20th-century pedestal topped with a green dome stands at the corner.

The interior was not inspected, but the corner room on the first floor was noted to have an enriched cornice. The building occupies a prominent position on the waterfront.