Athenaeum Building — Cecil Street

Attached three-bay three-storey over basement rendered building, built in 1856, with a pediment spanning the full-length of the façade. Pitched natural slate roof with a substantial rendered chimneystack with clay pots to both party walls. Heavy cornice to the pediment with lead flashing. Painted rendered walls with a tripartite projecting cornice to the ground floor. Rusticated render to the ground floor. With pilasters separating each bay. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and replacement six-over-three and nine-over-six timber sash windows, c. 2002. Segmental-headed window opening to ground floor central bay with eight-over-eight timber sash window and a two-over-two timber sash to the basement elevation. Flanking camber-headed door openings to end bays with identical timber-panelled doors with central fillet moulding and brass furniture, opening onto a flight of limestone steps and modern steel railings on a new limestone plinth course enclosing the basement area. Disabled access lift replaces the steps to the west entrance bay. Large rubble limestone building to the rear associated with the Athenaeum.