1-7, Union Place

A group of four alley houses, likely built in the 1830s, now used as a restaurant and offices. The front of the buildings are constructed of brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with English garden wall bond to the ends. The roof is hipped and covered in grey slate.

The houses are three storeys high, each originally one bay wide. They have a painted sandstone plinth and a single step of sandstone leading to each door. The doorcases include simple pilasters, friezes and cornices, with six-panel doors at numbers 1, 5, and 7. Number 3 has a replaced six-panel door. The windows are recessed sash windows with painted stone sills. The lower two floors have wedge lintels with cambered soffits over the windows, holding 16 panes of glass each. The third-floor windows have shorter sashes with 12 panes. Cast-iron rainwater pipes and heads are present, alongside a plain sandstone eaves coping and two ridge chimneys.

These houses represent a rare survival of alley housing, which has been converted without substantial external alteration. The interiors have been altered. Numbers 1-7 Union Place, along with numbers 1, 3, and 5 Cuppin Street, were part of a single development.