custom house — Quay Street

Attached three-bay single-storey custom house, dated 1803, currently unoccupied. Square-plan, attached to outbuilding to west. Double-pile hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted smooth rendered flat-capped chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters on painted smooth rendered corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to east elevation, smooth rendered walling to north and south elevations, channelled straight quoins to north-east corner. Square-headed window openings, tooled stone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows, painted wrought-iron window guards to south. Round-headed door opening to south elevation, pedimented smooth rendered raised surround, painted timber four-panel door, moulded timber cornice, sunbeam fanlight. Set along northern edge of yard with single-storey buildings to west and south; bounded to east by painted smooth rendered walling, limestone coping, painted metal sheeted gates, square-headed door opening to south, channelled render surround surmounted by limestone cornice and parapet bearing inscription "CUSTOM HOUSE 1803", painted metal sheeted door; former railway station to north.