Fraser House

Fraser House is a textile manufacturer's warehouse, now serving as a restaurant and gallery, built around 1855-1860 by Edward Walters. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, and it has a rectangular plan oriented at right angles to Charlotte Street, with a loading area on the right side facing Reyner Street. Designed in the Italianate style, it features a basement and four storeys with three bays.

The ground floor has a rusticated stone plinth, frieze, and cornice, along with dentilled sill-bands on the second and third floors. A prominent bracketed cornice and a brick parapet with corniced upstands at the corners, likely for chimneys, complete the top. The ground floor includes a large round-headed doorway on the right with a moulded surround and an enriched architrave topped with a prominent modillioned cornice. There are three square-headed windows in the centre and coupled stilted windows to the left. The upper floors have arched windows, with the first and second floors arranged in groups of 2:3:2 and the smaller top floor windows grouped 3:5:2. All windows feature moulded stone heads linked by impost bands, with the outer bays matching the fenestration of the five-bay left side facing Portland Street.

The windows on the ground floor are stilted, those on the first floor are round-headed under semicircular moulded arches with keystones, and the second floor windows are round-headed with coupled heads in a matching style. The third floor has small round-headed triple windows. The right-hand side, which is the functional rear, includes a full-height loading slot topped by a turret and a loading bay beyond this.

Inside, there are closely spaced rows of iron columns and wooden beams, with the former ground-floor showroom decorated as fluted columns with foliated caps and the beams featuring dentilled cornices. There is a front staircase to the first floor and a back staircase made of stone that extends to the full height of the building.