Phoenix Tap

The Phoenix Tap is an early 19th-century building in Maryport, Cumbria, originally a combined residence and premises for a wine and spirit dealer. Maryport developed in the mid-18th century as a planned town by Humphrey Senhouse, initially known informally and later officially as Maryport after his wife. It grew in the 19th century due to local iron and steel industries and shipbuilding, before experiencing a decline in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The building comprises three separate early-19th century structures, evidenced by the variations in their window surrounds on the ground and first floors. The front is stuccoed, appearing as cut stone, and has a stone-slate roof. The ground floor features a shopfront with two windows and a door with a rectangular three-light fanlight to the north, followed by a public house frontage with a central door, a rectangular fanlight and windows flanked by wide pilasters supporting a fascia and cornice. A window with a moulded surround is located to the south, alongside a passage door. The first floor contains five stone window surrounds with cornices, encompassing a central double sash window and single sashes on either side.