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Terraced three-storey stone-fronted Art Deco cinema, built 1934-8, to designs of Robinson and Keefe, having seven-bay group within colonnade to upper floors flanked by single-bay ends, and with modernized ground floor. Now with amusement arcade to ground floor. Flat roof to front section concealed behind stone parapet wall with moulded granite coping. Pitched roof of cinema hall (possibly asbestos) rising above surrounding flat roof with parapets to front and rear. Alternating Portland stone and granite ashlar coursed walls with slight recess to either end and projecting granite platband over ground floor. Central double-height seven-bay columnar breakfront comprising square-headed vertical window openings (now obscured by temporary canvas) having iron balconettes over ground floor and flanked by paired engaged Giant stylized Ionic-style columns on raised plinths, paired to either end and supporting full entablature, advanced to either end and surmounted by tripod lamps. Between first and second floors is apron panel with neon lettering "CARLTON" within openings. To either side of breakfront is single square-headed window opening to each floor with rendered ground floor having recessed entrance bay and replacement doors.
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