Photocare — Lower Abbey Street

Terraced four-storey commercial building, built c.1920, as part of composition of three identical elevations with two-tier oriel window and shopfront to ground floor. Flat roof hidden behind red brick parapet wall with granite coping and chimneystacks to west party wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with granite ashlar blocking course and moulded cornice spanning three elevations. Red brick pilaster to east end rising from first floor to parapet cornice with recessed brick panel, moulded brick plinth and granite capital moulding to cornice. Single square-headed window opening to third floor with granite surround, granite sill and original tripartite timber casement window. Three-sided canted oriel window to first and second floors with pedimented timber cornice and roughcast rendered corbelled base. Original timber casement windows with overlights having roughcast rendered panel between levels and moulded timber sills. Replacement shopfront to ground floor flanked by painted granite ashlar pilasters with plinth and capital mouldings surmounted by panelled granite console brackets framing timber fascia and cornice above.