Customs House

The Customs House is a Grade II listed building designed in the Wrenaissance style. It features a two-storey structure with an attic and a symmetrical five-bay front, highlighted by a central bell tower and advanced pedimented end bays. The building is constructed of yellow brick with bathstone dressings, a rusticated ground floor, and a red brick left side elevation. The roofs were originally slate before a fire, and there are yellow brick chimney stacks.

Architectural details include a plinth, a sill band, and a plain entablature with heavily moulded eaves. The outer bays are adorned with swagged Ionic coupled pilasters that frame bracket pedimented windows. There is a modern cantilevered iron balcony on the right bay. The central window features a segmental pediment, flanked by windows with shouldered architraves, and the attic windows have bracket sills and lugged architraves. A central Doric porch with a modillion cornice leads to double three-panel doors, and the ground floor windows have cambered heads. The bell tower has an octagonal domed roof with a weathervane on a bracket cornice, clock faces, and foliage panels above a splayed stem, which is supported by volute brackets and features carved Royal Arms on the front.

The right side elevation has a similar three-bay treatment, with a slightly advanced and pedimented broad central bay. It includes a central Venetian window with a broken bracketed pediment on plain pilasters, and an advanced pedimented doorcase with an arched entrance, along with a set-back round-headed doorway at the rear. There is side access to the right through rusticated gate piers.

Attached to the left of the front are twin segmental arched store entrances, topped by a segmental pediment featuring a scrolled cartouche that reads "Erected AD 1865." The building was boarded up and unoccupied at the time of inspection in February 1992.