Bad Bobs — Essex Street

Attached paired gable-fronted four-bay two-storey public house, dated 1879, having shopfront to front (north) elevation and recent extension to rear (south) elevation. Pitched roof with two gables to parapet to front having carved limestone cappings and finials. Red brick chimneystacks with red brick cornices. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls to upper floors with cut granite platbands and carved decorative granite string course having machicolations over windows to third floor sill level, rusticated limestone to apices of gables, and carved limestone date plaque. Paired square-headed shouldered window openings to third floor within segmental-headed recessed brick surrounds with cut granite tympana, stepped voussoirs, carved limestone sill courses and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window openings to first and second floors, arranged in pairs and set within square-headed recessed panels, having stepped red brick voussoirs, carved limestone sill courses and replacement windows. East bay windows set within canted plane with double-height segmental-headed opening. Carved limestone walls to ground floor shopfront with Corinthian pilasters supporting fascia and carved limestone cornice, pedimented and having engaged finial to centre, recent applied fasciae flanked by carved foliate panels. Round-headed window opening to centre having carved limestone surround with foliate carved detail to spandrels. Square-headed display window openings having carved limestone surrounds and replacement windows. Square-headed door opening to shopfront with carved limestone surround and double-leaf timber battened doors. Situated on the south side and centre of Essex Street East.