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Corner-sited attached five-bay four-storey former commercial premises, built c.1880, having wraparound shopfront and one bay to Parliament Street. Now in use as café with offices to upper floors. Hipped roof having rooflights hidden behind rebuilt brown brick parapet with render coping to front (north) and west elevations. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond to upper floors having polychrome brick string courses and moulded masonry plaques. Segmental-headed window openings with chamfered red brick voussoirs and surrounds, cut granite sills having moulded yellow brick corbels, wrought-iron railings to first floor windows, and one-over-one pane and one-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Some square-headed and round-headed window openings to front. Moulded masonry floral cornice, with decorative brackets, over brick and masonry to shopfront, with plinth course, masonry and polished red granite columns having moulded foliate capitals. Shouldered-arch window openings with timber framed fixed pane windows, canted to front, spikes to sills. Angled corner entrance to north-west corner having shouldered-arch openings supported on polished granite column with recessed convex curved double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled door, overlights and side-lights. Round-headed recesses with plain fanlights. Wrought-iron gates. Shouldered-arch side door with double-leaf timber panelled door and fanlight. Steel-framed basement lights to footpath to front. Situated to east of Essex Quay and north end of Parliament Street.
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