Exuberant, exceedingly tall two storey red brick building with stone dressings and with upper tabernacle of southern European, classical inspiration (c. 1880s).

Ground Floor – Original brick piers, with dog-tooth brick and stone elements, remain at either side. Recessed, shop-front area contains recent brick knee-walls below wooden sash glazing. Soffit is 7’ 6” from grade, leaving large expanse of plywood fascia with various frames formed by planted wood mouldings.

Second Floor – Three, 2/2 replacement windows within segmental-arch, brick apertures with flush, ashlar, stone plinths and hood mouldings. Continuous sandstone sill runs below windows and between outer pilasters. Expanse of painted plywood may mask additional brickwork below. Decorated, painted, wooden, belt-course exists beneath, at floor level. Series of machicolated arches crowns this floor, supporting flat masonry above, which is crowned with deep metal cornice spanning full width of building, and capped at both ends with projecting, decorated, stone blocks.

Parapet – Extraordinary, tall brick parapet comprises central, pedimented tabernacle capped by stone copings. Lateral pilasters, built off corbelled masonry below main cornice (which steps forward as these pass through), frame central, blind oculus. Tabernacle is supported at both sides by semi-circular, concave, buttresses with spandrels of stacked-bond, brick masonry. Bases of buttresses are anchored by piers, with stone copings supporting stone balls above. Similar piers and stone balls crown lateral pilasters, with a fifth at central pediment.