Pearse House — Hanover Street East

Multiple-bay four-storey apartment complex, built 1936, incorporating nine distinct ranges of buildings with shallow projecting bays and curved corners, eastern ranges broken by integral pedestrian passage, western by pedestrian path, having four-bay five-storey entrance front to north-west corner and galleried passages and open-faced stair towers to interior courtyard and southern elevation of southern range. Flat roofs concealed behind red brick parapet with smooth rendered parapets to projecting bays, having some moulded render in geometric ‘aviation’ pattern, steel railings, smooth rendered chimneystacks. Red brick laid in facer bond and header bond to ground floor and some corners, and smooth render with channelled bands to fenestration lines, to walls. Shouldered balconies to street and side elevations, and continuous smooth rendered balustrade walls to galleries. Square-headed window openings having recent fittings. Square-headed door openings, some retaining part-glazed timber panelled doors with overlights, and brass fittings. Square-headed shouldered openings to stair towers, round-headed openings providing access at ground floor level. Enclosed by mild-steel railings on rendered plinth walls with square-profile stepped render piers having decorative geometric mouldings. Playground, hard landscaped seats and community sports centre to site. Fronting onto Hanover Street East, Sandwith Street Lower, Erne Street Lower, and Erne Place lower.