O'Connor

Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1800, with shopfront and separate access to upper floors. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and dentillated eaves course. Painted rendered walls, ruled-and-lined, with render quoins. Segmental-headed window openings to upper floors, flanked by double-width openings, with block-and-start render surrounds, bracketed painted sills to first floor, and mixture of replacement aluminium, timber sliding sash one-over-one pane window, and timber casement windows. Elaborate timber shopfront to ground floor with moulded cornice, dentils, elaborate and ornate consoles and decorative panelled pilasters. Centrally-placed square-headed shop entrance with timber panelled door having render panel over, flanked by paired timber display windows with moulded surrounds and depressed arch heads. Square-headed door opening to upper floors, with timber panelled door having dentils and scrolled fluted brackets and decorative panelled pilasters to doorcase.

This building retains its scale and form, and occupies a prominent position at a major junction. The large and elaborate shopfront is a considerable feat of craftsmanship, and the form of the upper floor window openings is both interesting and unusual in this streetscape.