Fiorentina — Parliament Street

Corner-sited attached L-plan four-bay four-storey former offices, built c.1920, having bull-nosed corner bay, three bays to south, and recent wraparound shopfront to south and east elevations. Now in use as restaurant with offices and apartments above. M-profile pitched slate roof, hipped to south, hidden behind recent red brick parapet having granite coping. Granite platband and moulded red brick cornice over red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls to upper floors, with stepped facades to east and south elevations, red brick platband having moulded brick and carved sandstone cornice over second floor, moulded red brick cornice over first floor, red brick quoins and carved stone cornice to ground floor. Rusticated render to ground floor with recent granite clad plinth course. Square-headed window openings, having moulded terracotta surrounds, replacement windows and recent sills to third floor openings, red brick block-and-start surrounds with cut granite sills to first and second floor openings, tripartite arrangements to corner bay having carved sandstone pilasters, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Balconettes to first floor windows. Recent timber shopfront. Square-headed window openings to shopfront with timber colonnettes and recessed timber framed windows. Square-headed door openings, that to north end of east elevation having columns, recessed timber panelled door, overlight and granite clad steps, that to corner bay with colonnettes, overlight and double-leaf timber panelled door. Situated at junction of Parliament Street and Cork Hill.