Anglia House

Anglia House is an insurance office built in 1906 by Charles Heathcote. The building is constructed with brown polished granite to the ground floor, red sandstone ashlar above, and lead-clad roofs. It occupies an end-of-block site with a narrow rectangular plan and a canted corner. The architectural style is Free Baroque.

The building has three storeys and an attic, presenting a 1:3:1-bay facade to Cross Street and a single-bay facade to John Dalton Street. The ground floor features an Ionic colonnade with doorways in the corner and the fourth bay, and shop windows in the remaining bays, all set beneath a pulvinated frieze and prominent cornice. The upper floors are characterised by heavily moulded cornices, pierced by projected outer bays with banded pilasters and emphatic, steeply-pitched attic pediments. The first floor has two-light casements with broken pediments, the second floor has coupled 12-pane sash windows recessed behind a screen with coupled colonnettes, and the attic level features round-headed casements with radiating glazing bars. Other first-floor windows are casements with enriched architraves, while the second-floor windows are sashed. A flat-roofed dormer is located centrally above the facade, with casement windows.

A cylindrical Baroque turret rises from the corner, featuring banded pilasters, a prominent cornice, a round-headed window with an open pediment on colonnettes, and an ogival domed roof with consoles over the pilasters. Tall, corniced chimneys are present. The facade facing John Dalton Street mirrors the pedimented bays of the Cross Street elevation. The interior was not inspected.