Taylor and Sons Sailmakers (EHER 38472)

An early 19th century waterside granary, now a workshop. It is timber framed and clad in tarred weatherboarding with a painted corrugated iron roof. The building is constructed on timber piles and adjoins a sailing-barge yard. It is a two storey, six-bay structure.

July 1987. Grade II listed. An early 19th century waterside granary, now a workshop. It is timber framed and clad in tarred weatherboarding with a painted corrugated iron roof. The building is constructed on timber piles and adjoins a sailing-barge yard. It is a two storey, six-bay structure. The west elevation has two ground floor and two first floor boarded doors, and the upper floor has an entryway reached by 20th century external stairs. The waterside elevation has two ground-floor boarded doors and two smaller first floor boarded openings covering windows. Internally, a very substantial spine beam carries the upper floor on a series of Samson posts, some reused. The Queen-strut roof is constructed from reused cambered tie beams with straight braces. The tie beams have large painted numbers: that to the south also has a painted red rose: pencil sketches of sailing ships and steamships and a view of a Napoleonic fort at Cherbourg in a black painted frame. <1> See photos <2>.