Harbour Restaurant and house

Harbour Restaurant and house

A row of four late-Georgian style buildings of three storeys with two windows, combining shops at ground level with houses above, located at 1–9 High Street. The buildings have slate-hung fronts and a slate roof that is hipped at the right end (No. 1), where the corner is also splayed. Stone chimneystack flues run transversely across the roof, with a fourth pebble-dashed stack positioned at the right end. The four houses are not of equal width: No. 1 is the widest, while Nos. 7 and 9 are narrower than No. 3.

No. 1 (Pioden) features a replacement lower-storey window and replacement door to the right in a modern stone surround. To its right is a single-storey flat-roofed extension with slate-hung walls and a wide modern shop window beneath an awning. The middle storey contains 12-pane hornless sashes, and the upper storey has shorter 9-pane sashes. The right end wall, facing Madoc Street, is slate-hung above a lower-storey dentilled cornice, with 12-pane and 9-pane sash windows; to the right of the extension is a 4-pane hornless sash window in the lower storey. The rear includes a single-storey projection under a single-pitch roof.

No. 3 (Harbour Restaurant) has its entrance to the left: a recessed replacement boarded door beneath an overlight. To its right is a modern shop window set in an earlier opening, with an awning and modern fascia across the lower storey. The middle storey has replacement 12-pane horned sash windows and the upper storey similar but shorter 9-pane sashes. The rear is constructed of rubble stone in rough courses and retains some small-pane sash windows. It features thirty-light small-pane casements in the upper storey and a narrow two-storey rear wing.

No. 7 has its entrance to the left: a recessed replacement glazed door beneath an overlight, with a replacement shop window to its right in an earlier opening and a modern fascia above. The middle and upper storeys have hornless sash windows similar to Nos. 1 and 3, though the glazing bars in the lower sashes have been removed.

No. 9 (Portmeirion Pottery and Gifts) features a late 19th-century shop front with a replacement window and recessed entrance to the left with a replacement glazed door. The middle and upper storeys have hornless sash windows with the glazing bars in the lower sashes removed.

The left gable end (No. 9) is constructed of large blocks of unworked slate-stone laid in regular courses in the lower and middle storeys, with roughcast above. The lower storey has inserted paired horned sash windows, and on the left side are small-pane sashes in the lower and middle storeys. The upper storey contains a small-pane sash window to the right.

The rear of Nos. 3, 7 and 9 is set slightly back from No. 1 and is constructed of rubble stone in rough courses. Nos. 7–9 have a longer two-storey rear roughcast wing with a pebble-dashed front facing the lane at the side of the block. This wing has 20th-century horned sash windows, renewed external steps at the left end leading to a replacement first-floor door, and a half-glazed door and shop window inserted in a former wide doorway.