WHITSTABLE HORSEBRIDGE ROAD TR 1066 NE 1/186 Royal Native Oyster Stores II Oyster stores and club, now restaurant. Mainly of c.1890 but some ground floor brickwork and 2 sashes on the seaward side, probably remain from an earlier building of 1793. Stock brick with half-hipped slate roof, built in 2 parts, the eastern part of lower elevation. This part is of 2 storeys, 2 windows, 2 cambered 12-pane sashes with horns, the lower part of the ground floor sashes having no glazing bars. Central round-headed doorcase with semi-circular fan- light and corbels. C19 panelled door. One of the windows has engraved the words 'Committee Room'. Royal Coat of Arms of George III above doorcase and words 'By Appointment to HM Queen Victoria' and above the panel with the words 'Royal Native Oyster Stores'. The east gable has the legend Royal Free Fishers and Dredgers incorporated 1793 and a loading door. The taller western part has some English bond brickwork to the ground floor of the side facing the sea, the rest is Flemish bond. Red brick dressings. Three 12-pane cambered sashes with horns to first floor. Ground floor side elevation has four 12-pane cambered sashes with horns and 2 cambered double doors. Iron ties to left hand side of building. The seaward side has a ogulus to the attic and the first floor has a rendered first floor canted'project on with 4 sashes supported on 4 cast iron columns. The ground floor has two C18 12-pane sashes with moulded architraves and shutters and cambered double door with rectangular fanlight. Adjoining to left is a 1-storey stock brick building with gable and red brick dressings. Cambered opening to attic. Ground floor has cambered left side opening. Fixed window in centre, originally part of a blocked doorcase and tall cambered door to right. Side elevation has 2 cambered sashes. Interior has first floor hall of 6 bays with queen post roof and platform with splayed bay. Turned wooden balusters to staircase and pine panelling. Bar has exposed floor joists with criss-cross framing. The building comprises a great hall for meetings of the Royal Free fishers and Dredgers Company and underneath, rooms for sorting, cleaning and packing oysters, offices and special storage tanks for oysters awaiting transit. Listing NGR: TR1056266774