Captain Cooks House

Captain Cook’s House is a three-storey building of the late 18th or early 19th century, constructed in brick with a maroon ochre colour scheme. It features a heavy diagonal brick eaves cornice. The front elevation has four windows, one of which is blocked, arranged in pairs. These windows have flush frames and double-hung sashes with glazing bars, supplemented by small brick leaded oval windows on the first and second floors. A late 18th or early 19th century doorcase, featuring an elephant-backed, fluted pediment and a blocked radiating fanlight, shelters a six-fielded door with two glazed panels on the left side. The interior retains panelling. The attics remain unchanged and were, from 1746, the living quarters for the future Captain Cook during his apprenticeship to Captain Walker. A foot scraper is inset in the floor. The building may have earlier origins, as indicated by a plaque on the front, centrally positioned above the ground floor, which reads “D (over) MS 1688” commemorating Moses and Susannah Dring.