Sunniside Chambers

Offices, built between 1900 and 1902, by Henderson & Hall. The building is constructed of bright red brick with sandstone ashlar bands and dressings, and has a roof of Lakeland slates with red ridge tiles, brick and ashlar chimneys, and a lead dome. It is designed in the Art Nouveau style.

The building has three storeys and a ten-by-eight window arrangement, featuring a corner turret. The longer front faces St Thomas’ Street on the right return. The entrance on West Sunniside has a panelled door with a blocked overlight within a stone surround, topped by a modillioned cornice doorhood, below incised panels, and an arched top cornice. The ashlar plinth sweeps to street level below a window on the right, the window originally a two-light design but with its mullion removed. A continuous sill band integrates with the plane of the door surround. Bands are flush with the brickwork from the window surround. The paired first-floor windows above this window have upper glazing bars to the sashes, set back within plain surrounds, with bands at transom, head and voussoir levels. These bands feature alternating ashlar and brick voussoirs and a prominent keystone. The top floor has ashlar above the sill band, with two lights in a plain surround alternating with three recessed panels.

The corner turret, projecting from the first-floor level on a corbelled, wide ashlar bracket, has single narrow windows on each of the three floors. The third-floor window is tapered and may exhibit entasis, with bands continuing from the front and around the bracket to the return. The steeply pitched hipped roof, interrupted by the turret, has wide modillioned eaves projecting to the plane of the turret. The turret itself has an ogee, octagonal roof with wide modillioned eaves and a disc-and-spike finial. Tall chimneys are located on the ridge of the right return. The front facing St Thomas' Street has higher eaves in the first bay adjacent to the turret, a projecting right-end bay, and a central, wide entrance with an altered fascia, flanked by mullioned windows.