2, 3 AND 4, THE QUAY

This is a house with shops, dating from the early to mid-19th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. The walls are solid and rendered, and the roof is slate-covered. There are gable-end chimneys, one of red brick and the other rendered. The building has a double-depth plan with three rooms and a staircase located behind the front middle room, backed by two closets.

The building is three storeys high with a three-window front. The ground floor has a four-bay design with pilasters between and at the ends, supporting an entablature. Shops are present in three bays; the shop at number 3 is a later 20th-century addition, replacing an original window. A house entrance is located in the narrow bay between numbers 3 and 4. Number 2 has an arcaded shop front with four rounded arches springing from pilasters. Number 4 features two curved display windows above a recessed shop door, with slender shafts supporting rounded arches featuring carved spandrels. The shop door itself is three-quarter glazed with a solid bottom panel and a shaped head surmounted by a swan-neck pediment and fanlight. A four-panelled house door also has a patterned fanlight.

The upper storeys are divided into three bays by giant pilasters. The central bay's windows are set within a shallow round-arched recess. The second-storey windows are pilastered with entablatures; the narrower middle window has a segmental pediment containing a two-light wood casement with transom lights, each lower light divided into three panes. The outer windows are each of three lights with plain sashes, the upper sashes round-headed. The third-storey windows have eaved architraves and bracketed sills with two-paned sashes. The top entablature has large scroll brackets to the cornice. A broken blocking course in the centre features an open patterned balustrade with pedestals topped by short obelisks. The rear wall has windows with six and ten panes.

Inside, a geometrical wooden staircase features alternating square and round balusters, the latter carved with a lily pattern at the base, and shaped step-ends. The left-hand side of the staircase compartment is curved and features four-panelled doors. A half-glazed inner front door has glazing-bars arranged in Gothic arches. Several original chimneys with cast-iron grates remain.