House and Sea Chest

This is a late Georgian style house and shop, likely dating to the late 18th century. It is situated on both Berry Street and High Street. The building’s frontages reflect its earlier division into two separate properties.

The Berry Street elevation is two storeys high and five bays wide, arranged as a group of two bays and three bays. The walls are pebble-dashed and painted cream, with a smooth-rendered plinth and eared architraves. The roof is slate, with boarded eaves, and there are stone stacks on the eaves between the first and second bays of Berry Street and a larger lateral stack to the rear. The entrance to the house is in the first bay of Berry Street, featuring a modern fielded-panel door. To the right of the door is a tripartite 12-pane hornless sash window, set beneath a cornice supported on consoles. The third bay has a 9-pane hornless sash window under a segmental head, with a gabled canopy supported by iron brackets (this was formerly a doorway according to a photograph from around 1950). The fifth bay exhibits a 20th-century small-pane shop window within an earlier opening, beneath a simple repainted fascia and deep cornice on consoles. The upper storey windows are renewed 12-pane hornless sashes. A modern hanging shop sign is positioned at the right end of the Berry Street frontage, with a cast-iron street sign just beneath the eaves above it.

The High Street elevation features a modified shop entrance. The replacement half-glazed panel door is to the left, set beneath a narrow top-hung casement window. To the right of the door is a mid-20th century small-pane shop window within an earlier opening. The shop front is framed by smooth-rendered blank panels and a modern fascia. A blind window is located in the upper storey. A cast-iron street sign is on the left side at eaves level.

The rear of the building is constructed of rubble stone and has replacement windows. A lateral stack is located on the right side, with a lean-to projecting against the adjoining property in High Street to the left.

To the left end of the Berry Street elevation is a lower projection, originally a separate cottage, now integrated with the main house and sharing a roughcast stack with number 4. This projection has a pebble-dashed front with a smooth-rendered plinth and architraves, matching the main house. The original doorway is no longer visible. A 12-pane hornless sash window (likely a 19th-century insertion) is located in the lower storey, and a 9-pane sash window is positioned above it.