Cancelled

This is a 17th-century building incorporating earlier, probably 15th-century fabric, restored between 1954 and 1959 by Wheeler & Sproson, and again in 1960. It is a 3-storey building with attic, arranged in 3 bays and H-plan, comprising a former Customs House (right gable) and town house/fisher tenement block. It was converted to offices and a shop around 1970. The building is harled with painted margins.

The structure features a volute corbel table and crowstepped gable to the west, a corbelled stair and moulded string course (later addition) to the east, and stop-chamfered arrises throughout.

The south elevation facing High Street has an advanced crowstepped gable to the left of centre with a window to the left and an adjacent modern door to the outer left at ground level. A small stair window sits to the right set high under a full-width corbel table, with a 2-leaf boarded timber door on the return to the right. Windows appear at the first and second floors to the left, with further windows to each floor on the return to the right and a small attic window above, slightly offset to the right, in the gablehead. A stair window sits to the outer right between the first and second floors with a further attic window above. The recessed centre bay contains 3 windows at ground level and windows to the right and left of centre on each floor above, with remains of a crowstepped gable to the outer right. A further advanced gabled bay to the right steps down to a 2-leaf boarded timber door at the centre, with flanking windows and a chamfered corner to the outer right. Three windows occupy the first and second floors, the second floor having a cill course. A canon water spout appears to the outer left with small attic windows to the right and left above.

The east elevation on Malcolm's Wynd is asymmetrically fenestrated, with a step up to a low timber door to the right of centre, a corbelled stair to the left and above.

The west elevation has a slightly advanced gable to the right of centre with a stair window to the right at first floor and to the left at second floor. Corbelling, showing evidence of stairs, lies to the outer right. A recessed blocked doorway sits to the left with two small windows at ground and first floor levels, and a further window at second floor level beyond to the left.

The north elevation features a lower advanced chimney gable to the left with a small blocked window at ground level, windows to each floor above, and a further small window in the gablehead. Two windows occupy each floor on the return to the right. A recessed centre bay contains 3 windows to each floor, and a further advanced chimney gable to the outer right has a timber door on the return to the left, with a window to the right of centre on each floor and a small attic window above.

Windows throughout use 4-, 9- and 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered in red pantiles. Gablehead stacks are coped and harled in rubble, with rubble ridge stacks fitted with the full complement of cans and ashlar-coped skews. Cast-iron downpipes and a decorative cast-iron rainwater hopper complete the external detailing.

Internally, the Customs House section (No. 449, now a bookshop) contains steps down to a low-ceilinged room with exposed beams, a large corniced stone fireplace and small rooms to the rear, the north-west room retaining a blocked window to the north. A turnpike stair to the east leads to No. 451 on the first floor, where a room to the south features a painted ceiling, probably dating to the early 17th century, with boards displaying barely visible arabesques and bird and animal heads, alongside religious texts including "I will pay my dows unto the Lord" on beams. The west wall displays a roll-moulded and corniced stone fireplace with carved frieze, eroded initials "BW", and a date of 1676. Above stands a carved and painted stone panel bearing the arms of Charles II. A rear room contains moulded cornice, timber panelling and a moulded fireplace. No. 453 on the second floor has corbelling and a low boarded timber door with iron hinges, along with a small roll-moulded stone fireplace.

Nos. 445-447 (west and centre bays) have been modernised. The building contains 2 stone stairs, with upper floors displaying decorative plasterwork ornament to wallheads and soffits featuring thistles, fleur-de-lis, roses and grapevines. A stone fireplace and wide cornice over a door are also present.

Coped rubble boundary walls enclose the site.