The following text is from the original listed building designation:
WEST STREET 1. 5282 (East Side) Blue Town, Sheerness Nos 3 and 4 TQ 9175 SW 2/122
II GV 2. Early C19 facade. 3 storeys rendered. Hipped tiled roof in 2 hips. 1 window to No 3. 2 windows and 1 blank to No 4. Ground floor bar front window and door. The rear elevation has a partly slate roof and is weatherboarded.
Listing NGR: TQ9109075006 (1)

In 1995 a summary on the Sheerness docklands was carried out by the RCHME. Number 3 and number 4 Wset street were both originally three-storey timber-framed buildings. Number 4 was formerly the Ship Public House and although a building is present on Dodd's map of Blue Town in 1800 it is not know if number 4 was a pub at this time. The OS map shows that the building is the Ship by 1864 and that at least the ground floors of number 3 are also part of the pub.The Ship had one etched glass window depicting a ship and labelled 'saloon'. (2)

At sometime during the 1990s, after 1995, several buildings along West Street were demolished, including number 4 and part of number 3. The original bottom story of number 3 survives but has been added too. At the time of the survey number 3 was unused and boarded up.

Historic England archive material: BF093358 4 West Street, Blue Town, SheernessBF093369 3 WEST STREET, BLUE TOWN, SHEERNESS

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document). SWX6974.