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Corner-sited multiple-bay group of two-storey shops, dated 1924-5, with attics and residential accommodation to upper floors; equally proportioned east and west wings terminating at canted corner at south. Mansard slate roof with terracotta ridges and hips, having gablets and dormers, red brick chimneystacks with corniced caps, eaves slightly overhanging on profiled rafter tails, and metal rainwater goods. Gablets have stone copings and kneelers, and each has paired attic window. Red brick walling, laid in English garden wall bond, over chamfered rendered plinth, with banded brick piers to canted south end, row of orange brick headers at first floor window head level; ground floors in use as shops; roughcast rendered to north gable. Square-headed window openings with plain reveals, rock-faced and feather-edged granite lintels, granite sills. Bays variously fenestrated, each gableted bay having paired window under slightly recessed semi-circular panel with keystone, inscribed with date at south; replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed doorways giving access to upper floors arranged between shopfronts; original six-panel door to west having six-pane transom; replacement five-panel timber door to south having tall original stained and leaded transom and sidelights; otherwise replacement doors. Shopfronts variously detailed and having brick piers and bracketed timber or plastic fascias. Located at junction of Botanic Road and Prospect Avenue.
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