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Attached nine-bay two-storey over basement and with half-dormer attic former soldiers' institute, dated 1880. Now in use as offices. Gables over paired end bays and wider central bay, single-storey central porch. Pitched slate roof, with pierced ridge crestings, aluminium gutter and downpipe, and single chimneystack to east having three terracotta pots. Walling is Flemish bonded brickwork with gauged brick detailing, including corbelled eaves cornice, raked to gables, string courses and chamfered sandstone course over basement. Square-headed window openings throughout, with ornate gauged brick architrave surrounds rising to foliate panels above ground floor windows, and pedimented entablatures to first floor gable windows. Replacement uPVC windows throughout, with moulded bracketed sandstone sills to ground floor windows, with continuous sill course to first floor. Roundels to outer gables, and Diocletian window to central gable at attic level. Brick porch with pierced parapet contains round-headed voussoired window openings to either side containing square-headed windows with carved sandstone tympanum panel over. Round-headed entrance opening with voussoirs, impost mouldings and dated sandstone tympanum panel reading 'Soldiers' Institute / A.D. 1880', with double-leaf fretwork-panelled timber doors. Opens directly onto street, with basement well bounded by painted cast-iron railing, having steps to east.
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