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The Food Gallery — Thomas Street

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The Food Gallery — Thomas Street
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Terraced four-bay three-storey over basement and with dormer attic former bank, built 1902, having shopfront to front (south) elevation. Now in use as café. Artificial slate mansard roof having rendered chimneystacks and gabled dormer windows to front. Granite parapet with granite coping and cornice, granite coping to barges. Cut granite to walls with carved string courses. Polished granite roundels inset to wall to first floor. Yellow brick laid in English garden wall bond to east and west elevations. Segmental-headed window openings, paired to centre, having carved granite surrounds, those to first floor flanked by granite Composite columns, paired to ends of façade, polished red granite shaft to centre column. Continuous hood-moulding over and sill course to second floor windows, sill course to first floor windows. One-over-one-pane timber sash windows. Carved granite shopfront having fascia over foliate cornice. Segmental-headed openings, with carved granite surrounds, flanked by cut granite columns with polished red granite shafts to corners. Overlights and recent glazed doors. Projecting entrance bay to east of façade. Segmental-headed door opening flanked by columns with polished granite shafts, polished granite roundels to spandrels of wall above door, carved granite surround, overlight, carved foliate lintel and timber panelled door. Steel-framed ceiling lights to basement, set in granite paving slabs to footpath to front.

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