Two-storey, three-bay, brown, rug-brick theatre with recessed pointing, and aluminum shop-fronts with black and grey Vitrolite, below simple marquee and period sign (c. 1950).

Ground Floor – Three bays of building comprise central theatre entry and shops either side. Stall risers, steel-framed windows and doors, and black and grey Vitrolite combine to form period, 1950s ensemble. Marquee is clad in unknown materials, with plywood fascia.

Second Floor – Perhaps the flattest expanse of brickwork in Main Street, and yet with a certain period charm even in its ugliness. (See the lamentations of Peter Stokes on this topic.) Fenestration seems minute within unadorned expanse of brick, consisting of lateral, ABA, aluminum-framed windows with narrow, 1/1 units either side of fixed central pane, and with single, 1/1 window in centre of wall. (All windows are recent replacements.) Steel-angle lintels at windows are without decorative brick element, and sills are of rough concrete. At extreme RH side of this elevation, the tiny, 1/1 window deserves special mention for its incongruity within the formality typical of Main Street. Is this perhaps a bathroom window, so undisguised? Sign, according to Stokes, pales in comparison to its predecessor (again, see Stokes’s comments), yet this forms an integral part of the 1950s aesthetic.

Comments – Though the present façade is inappropriate to the intended date of the Heritage District, the original theatre façade (as per Stokes’s description) is irretrievable; nor would the existing façade be built today. This block therefore presents a case for composite restoration, and should remain generally as is, including the recessed pointing. Such an approach implies that things might be added to the existing, simple, brick surfaces but things should not be taken away; and the theatre sign, in all its old gaudiness, should remain. At the shops, lettering directly on the windows would be preferable to signage above. The only items requiring repair at the concrete sills at the upper level, which are failing.

North Elevation – Side elevation is comprised of two, pilastered and machicolated, brick blocks (c. 1880), the more westerly block having later bay (c. 1950) at extreme RH side.

Two-storey block is divided into six bays of varying widths, with westerly bay being return of later façade of brown rug brick with original, recessed pointing. Shop-front has corrugated aluminum stall-riser, large, aluminum-framed windows and black Vitrolite at pier and above. Marquee extends around corner and curves back into wall. Four, small, symmetrically-placed windows are located immediately above and adjacent marquee, each having original, metal-sash window (behind recent aluminum storms). At second floor, lone, 2/2 replacement window has steel lintel and simple concrete sill, all as at front elevation. Wall-head is also plain, capped with glazed and jointed tiles. Older part of this block has various treatments. Fieldstone foundation has red-brick plinth above, with three upper courses stepping in to buff-brick wall. Much of elevation is hidden by two large billboards, with broad, moulded wood frames, lit by spun-metal fixtures. Some window apertures, now bricked up, are visible behind. At RH side, three small windows step up to east, suggesting stair within. Windows have wooden sills and segmental arches with hoodmoulds. Lowest voussoirs spring from older, red-brick band-course having upper and lower stringcourses. Brickwork in west bay indicates reworking of apertures formerly as those at second floor, suggesting conversion of an older building to a theatre. Second-floor windows are 1/1 aluminum replacements, set behind original, curve-headed frames, with flashed sills below. Segmental-arch voussoirs and hoodmoulds drop at upper jams to meet band-course as at ground floor. Red-brick parapet has tall machicolees with plain wall above, all set between pilasters with narrow corbelled brick stacks supporting unusual arches which extend out to end at double, corbelled horizontal courses. Heavily repointed masonry at wall-head is flashed with galvanized sheet metal.

North Elevation – Side elevation has tall, one-storey, dichromatic-brick, east block (c. 1900?).