7 and 7a, Quay Street

No. 7 and 7A Quay Street is a house with a warehouse at the rear, dating from the early 17th century. It features colour-washed cob on a rubblestone plinth, with part of the rear wall slate-hung. The building has a gabled slate roof over the rear range and a slate roof over the cross wing, mostly replaced with artificial slate, while No. 7A to the right has a thatched roof. The stacks are made of rubblestone and finished in brick.

The structure consists of three ranges built around a narrow courtyard. The front range has two units with a rear lateral stack that heats a room to the right of an unheated room, likely designed as a passageway to the rear yard. To the left is a two-unit cross wing heated by a front gable-end stack. The former warehouse range at the rear runs parallel and has a 19th-century rear lateral stack. The building is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The cross wing features 20th-century windows, while No. 7A has mid-19th-century 10/10-pane sash windows. The courtyard includes 19th-century three-light casement windows for the rear warehouse and a 17th-century ovolo-mullioned three-light window next to the stack in the front room on the right.

Inside, there are boxed beams to the right and stop-chamfered beams in the cross wing. The cobbled through-way, now covered, has a chamfered lintel over a wide opening leading to the rear yard. On the first floor, there is an 18th-century two-panelled door. The roof of the front range is not accessible, but the cross wing has a four-bay roof (also not accessible) with boxed principal rafters and purlins. The rear warehouse range, which was partially inspected, has a 17th or 18th-century collar truss with a ridge-in-notch apex. This building is an interesting example of a 17th-century merchant's house with its own warehouse outbuilding.