54 AND 56, PILGRIM STREET (See details for further address information)

This building, formerly a Masonic Temple and now offices, shops, and a club, was constructed in 1894 to designs by John Johnson and J.K.W. Lowry. It was refurbished and converted around 1989. The structure is built of ashlar and brick with ashlar dressings, and has lead roofs.

The Pilgrim Street facade is four stories and displays a Neo Jacobean style. A large, off-centre entrance archway is topped by a broken pediment on brackets. To the left of the archway is a doorway with a small window, and to the right, a segment-headed doorway with a raised keystone and a foundation stone plaque. Above these elements are single circular windows topped by winged globes. The first floor features five Doric pilasters and a central pair of windows flanked by single windows, all with ashlar surrounds and round-headed arches featuring carved tympanums. The attic floor has a central two-light window with flanking two-light windows, supported by squat panel pilasters and an entablature with a balustrade and ball finials. A central, elaborate carved dormer incorporates a shield. A small corner cupola is located on the left side.

The High Bridge front continues the Pilgrim Street design for four stories, showcasing similar fenestration and articulation through pilasters, culminating in an elaborate gabled blind dormer. Further along the High Bridge front, the facade transitions to red and white brick with ashlar dressings; the first two bays are four stories, while the remaining four are two stories high. The ground floor features an entrance to the left and five shop fronts.

The Shakespeare Street front, four stories high and three windows wide, is in the Italianate style. The ground floor has a round-headed doorway with rusticated pilasters supporting a segmental pediment, and a shop front with a further pilaster. Above, three deeply sunk windows are set within surrounds of pilasters and rusticated bands. Further up, three round-headed windows are contained within square-headed surrounds, also with rusticated pilasters. Yet another level of three round-headed arches and pilasters tops the facade, which is finished by a deep cornice. The building is related to 67 High Bridge and 16 Shakespeare Street.