Oman Antique Galleries — Capel Street

Terraced five-bay three-storey former theatre and showroom, built 1871 and altered 1879, now in commercial use, with arcaded ground floor. M-profile slate roof, half-hipped to south, chimneystacks to north party wall, hidden behind parapet wall. Moulded masonry entablature surmounted by deep bracketed cornice, flanked by round-headed consoles. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with channelled moulded soldier quoins. Granite plinth course. Moulded masonry string course over masonry entablature. Arcaded ground floor comprising channelled rendered pilasters supporting round-headed arches having moulded surrounds, moulded masonry impost course and dropped masonry keystones. Engaged round-plan columns with floriate capitals and masonry banding on square plinth bases supporting masonry cornice and entablature, surmounted by deep moulded masonry dentillated cornice. Round recesses to spandrel walls with marigold motif bosses. Gauged brick segmental-headed window openings to second floor having masonry sills and single-pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor with shouldered architrave masonry surrounds, dropped keystone and moulded masonry sills, set within pilastered masonry surround having fluted consoles supporting stepped cornice, with single-pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed openings to arcade, on masonry sills and panelled rendered risers having recent fixed timber framed display windows with wire-mesh security cover. Round-headed door openings having moulded masonry surround, moulded impost course and dropped keystone. Plain glazed fanlights with steel grille to interiors, double-leaf timber panelled door to north and original double leaf timber panelled door with decorative cast-iron grille upper panels to south. Door opens directly to street.