Thomas Read — Parliament Street

Corner-sited attached L-plan five-bay four-storey former shop, built 1900, having bull-nosed corner bay and four bays to Dame Street. Now in use as public house and offices. Pitched roof, hipped to south-west corner, hidden behind red brick parapet with cut granite coping and decorative polychrome brick eaves course. Red brick chimneystack having red brick cornice and terracotta pots. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls to upper floors, with platband of polychrome clay tiles to third floor sill level. Segmental-headed window openings to third floor, pointed arch window openings to first and second floors having polychrome brick voussoirs and moulded brick reveals, cut granite sills to third and first floor openings, moulded red brick sills to second floor openings, rendered tympana to first and second floor openings. Tripartite windows to corner bay and front (west) elevation. Group of six pointed arch windows to front set within colonnade of engaged Corinthian columns, having polychrome brick voussoirs and brick cornice. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Round-headed door opening to south elevation with rusticated rendered surround having keystone and carved limestone figurative capitals, paired round-headed overlight, now blocked, with masonry surround having central colonnette and occulus above, and inset square-headed opening with timber panelled door. Smooth rendered walls to shopfront having panelled pilasters and risers, with painted timber fascia and cornice. Square-headed window openings to shopfront with recent timber windows. Square-headed door opening to north end of front elevation with recessed surround, overlight and timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to corner bay having overlight and double-leaf timber panelled door. Situated at junction of Parliament Street and Dame Street.