53, Grey Street

No. 53 Grey Street is a shop and house, now used as offices, built around 1837, likely designed by John Wardle for Richard Grainger. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and has four storeys with three bays. The ground floor, dating from around 1900, features a plinth and rusticated pilasters. It has a renewed door set back between the pilasters, which has block rustication beneath a fanlight with a wrought-iron grille and a many-keyed arch. Above the ground floor, an entablature with a prominent cornice supports a giant Corinthian Order, featuring attached square end columns and four intermediate fluted columns that frame the bays. The first floor has plain sash windows in architraves, with those on the first floor being pedimented, and a wrought-iron balcony on the outer bays. The second floor is highlighted by a prominent entablature with a modillioned cornice, and the top floor has pilasters and a cornice, with renewed windows in plain reveals.