building misc — Common Quay Street

Attached four-bay (three- or four-bay deep) two-storey gable-fronted temperance coffee house, dated 1877, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to ground floor. In alternative use, 1896. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Adapted to alternative use, 2005. Replacement pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth with ogee-detailed coping to gable on blind frieze on ogee-detailed stringcourse framing date stone ("1877") in moulded rendered surround. Rendered shopfront to ground floor with bull nose-detailed pilasters on plinths supporting lead-covered ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze on entablature. Camber-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and moulded rendered archivolts centred on diamond rusticated panelled keystones framing replacement fixed-pane fittings. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-granite sills, and moulded rendered surrounds centred on panelled keystones framing replacement casement fittings. Interior including (ground floor): coffee hall retaining pair of cast-iron Corinthian colonette pillars supporting compartmentalised ceiling with decorative plasterwork cornices centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling roses in decorative plasterwork frames. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.