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shop/retail outlet — King Street South

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Corner-sited four-bay four-storey over concealed basement commercial building, built 1932, with four-bay secondary elevation fronting onto South King Street. Shopfront spanning both elevations and curved corner entrance bay with responding turret above parapet. Roof obscured behind Portland limestone ashlar parapet wall with glazed roof section visible to north pitch. Decagonal turret rises from corner bay constructed in Portland limestone ashlar having rectangular pierced openings, decagonal canopy and finial. Portland limestone ashlar walls between floors and shallow advanced end bay to north of front (Grafton Street) elevation and to west of secondary elevation, framing recessed slender vertical window opening to upper three floors with ribbed bronze apron panels. Square-headed window openings with brown aluminium windows throughout and brown brick panels between windows. Replacement timber glazed shopfronts to both elevations with polished granite stall-riser, fixed-pane display windows surmounted by plain fascia, clerestory of leaded stained glazing below upper fascia and oversailing reeded cornice. Abutted by red brick building to west (50920069) at No. 55 King Street South and by No. 55 Grafton Street (50920067).

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