Two-storey, pressed-red-brick building of classical inspiration, with stone trim, many old shop-front elements, lower, wooden entablature and upper metal cornice, and punctured, brick parapet; and with sophisticated recessed entrance porch at RH side – no. 162 (c. 1910).

Ground Floor – Comprised of two shop-fronts south of recessed masonry entry. Shop-fronts, separated by panelled post, retain period wood doors, rounded, brass corner-battens at windows, and dentilled transoms and v-jointed soffit panels at doors; all much-hidden by curved plastic canopies. RH unit has fieldstone stall-riser, and traditional woodwork remains at LH unit. Plywood fascias probably hide period upper glazing. To right, recessed porch is framed by painted, stone columns (distyle in antis) on engaged rock-faced stone piers under rustic, stone blocks, with brick jambs rising to high, segmental-arch above. Arch has typical hood-moulding, dropping at upper jambs. Entrance porch has brick walls, encaustic tile floor and original panelled and glazed door under frosted-glass transom window. Shop-front entablature has compressed architrave and frieze below deep dentilled cornice, all in wood.

Second Floor – Pilasters divide upper floor into unequal bays with two, two and one windows respectively. Original, 1/1 windows remain, as do leaded-pane transom-windows (all with metal storms). Sills, transoms and lintels are of rock-faced stone, with rusticated stone band extending from lintels, and between pilasters. Course of fine, dentilled bricks frames top of each bay, above which masonry steps forward slightly to plane of adjacent pilasters.

Entablature and Parapet – Entablature is part masonry, part metal, with moulded egg-and-dart brick course forming architrave under brick frieze. Shallow metal cornice has dentils and block-type modillions. Unusual parapet has two levels of small apertures throughout, and spans between stone-capped piers over pilasters. Parapet is flashed in rusting sheet-metal.