Crackbird / Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe — Dame Street

Corner-sited attached seven-bay five-storey over basement commercial building, built 1871, with chamfered corner bay, and having six-bay east elevation. Altered 1890, 1909 and 1930. Bow to rear (north) elevation. Recent shopfronts to front (south) elevation, historic shopfront to east elevation. Flat roof with rendered chimneystacks, red brick parapet to west bays, and yellow brick and rendered parapet to west bays having granite coping. Red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to wall to front, laid in Flemish bond, and in English garden wall bond to wall to east elevation. Timber panelled cladding to first floor with carved timber fascia and cornice. Single rendered bay to west. Square-headed window openings having granite sills, raised render reveals and timber casement windows, with some blind openings to east. Concrete colonnade supporting fascia to shopfront to west, and timber panelled and glazed shopfront to east. Square-headed door openings with half-glazed doors. East elevation elevation having rendered seven-bay shopfront with three-bay central breakfront, and projecting moulded cornices having central pediment, with render fasciae flanking breakfronts and render plinth course. Round-headed window openings flanking central doorcase, having carved timber tympanum with shell and fruit motif. Square-headed window openings to ground floor north bays. Round-headed central doorcase having panelled double-leaf doors flanked by fluted rendered surrounds with ribbon detail and keystone. Two square-headed doorcases to north bays obscured by roller shutters. Lift to interior dating c.1890, having timber panelled walls, circular medallion floor buttons and folding cast-iron gate.