NHER 43002 (Building record) - Manby House and Ahoy, 86 and 87 High Road

June 1953. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Pair of houses. 1840s. Red brick, colourwashed except to west front of No.87. Slate roofs. Two storeys; two-window range. Each house has a door plus one window bay. 6-panelled doors under fanlights, the fanlight to No.86 with 6 vanes, the other plain. No.86 with one recessed 6/6 unhorned sash to each floor. No.87 with one late 20th century top-hung casement to each floor. Platband at first floor with an inscription to No.86: `Capt. G.W. Manby F.R.S. (inventor of life saving apparatus) lived in this house and died here in November 18th, 1854.' First floor of No.87 with two nautical portholes. Dentilled eaves cornice with dog-tooth decoration. Gabled roof with a central flat. Stacks at divisions of property and a rebuilt stack to south of No.86.
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 25 January 2005.