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Corner-sited attached three-bay four-storey former office, built c.1890, having three-bay canted elevation to south-east, and shallow pedimented breakfronts to front (south-west) and south-east elevations, with further five-bay three- and four-storey elevation to west. Now in use as restaurant. Pitched slate roof, hipped to canted bay, having yellow brick chimneystacks with moulded terracotta detailing and cornices, moulded terracotta balustraded parapet having moulded cornice and piers surmounted by ball finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded terracotta cornice and platband, over brown brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls, with yellow brick pilasters, terracotta panels having foliate and figurative motifs, fascia with dentillated cornices to third floor, stepped to breakfronts to front and south-east elevations, scrolled consoles and raised lettering: ‘D’OLIER CHAMBERS’. Dentillated cornice and moulded string course to ground floor, granite plinth course. Round-headed window openings to pediments, mounded terracotta surrounds and fluted keystones with fleur-de-lis, moulded terracotta foliate details to tympana and spandrels, pilasters having fluted entablatures, timber casement windows and plain fanlights. Square-headed window openings to second and third floors, dentillated and egg-and-dart motifs to terracotta fasciae, moulded terracotta lintels, timber casement windows. Wrought-iron balconettes on moulded terracotta cornices and terracotta sills to second floor windows. Balustraded terracotta balconettes to third floor windows to breakfronts. Round-headed window openings to first floor, moulded terracotta surrounds, decorative panels to pilasters, stepped reveals, fluted keystones, timber casement windows and integral fanlights, some coloured glass. Moulded panels to aprons having swags and foliate details. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor, terracotta reveals, hood mouldings, keystones and sills with panelled aprons, coloured glass tympana and timber framed windows. Segmental-headed door openings, terracotta reveals and hood mouldings, keystones, double-leaf glazed timber doors and coloured glass tympana. Coffered ceiling with rosette motif to interior. Some basement lights with granite paviers to front.
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