2,3 And 4, Exchange Place

Nos. 2, 3, and 4 Exchange Place are terraced offices built around 1870 by W.H. Blessley in Middlesbrough. The building is constructed of brick with stone, polychrome brick, and encaustic tile dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. It features an Italianate style and stands three stories tall with an irregular design.

The ground floor has an 18-bay stilted-segmental arcade, supported by round granite colonnettes with square pedestals and capitals in the first three bays, while the other bays have roughly-dressed colonnettes. The doors have been renewed and the overlights are blocked, flanked by pilasters in the fourth and thirteenth bays. The windows have been renewed and are now boarded over, with a door now occupying the third bay. A continuous hoodmould with billet moulding runs from the fourth to the eighteenth bays, and there is a foliate-patterned tiled band below the first-floor sills.

The first floor features a similar 12-bay round arcade, which holds recessed single and paired round-headed casement windows. The colonnettes separate the paired windows, which are topped with common round heads adorned with quasi-Celtic cross-ornamented roundels in the blocked tympana. The second floor has seven bays with round-headed casement windows, arranged singly and in groups of two, three, and four, also separated by similar colonnettes. Carved capitals and imposts are present in the first four bays, along with a moulded sill string and a bracketed eaves cornice.

A large gabled dormer over the second bay features a round-headed opening with four round-headed windows beneath three cusped oculi. Pointed relieving arches are present over all openings. The building has cross-axial stacks, truncated on the right and gabled on the left end. At the time of the resurvey, the building was disused and in a dilapidated state. It was formerly known as Albert Bridge Place.