Charlotte House

Charlotte House is a cotton merchants' warehouse built in 1857 by Edward Walters, now used as offices. It features a combination of sandstone ashlar and light red brick with sandstone dressings, and is designed in the Italian palazzo style. The building has a rectangular plan, a basement, and five storeys, with a four-storey rear section. The symmetrical facade has nine windows and treats the ground floor as rustic, showcasing a rusticated rock-faced basement and an ashlar ground floor with a cornice, quoined corners, and sill- and head-bands on the upper floors. A prominent modillioned cornice crowns the building.

The ground floor includes a central round-headed doorway framed by a square-headed architrave with carved spandrels and a cornice, along with segmental-headed windows that have keyed architraves. The first-floor windows are segmental-headed with moulded architraves, while the second-floor windows feature architraves with pediments. The top two floors have simpler surrounds, each with a raised rosette on a roundel above the third-floor windows and an emphatic sill-band on the fourth floor; the architraves of the first to third floors are vertically linked.

The left return wall facing George Street has four bays at the same height, continuing with a nine-bay section that includes three doorways but lacks the fourth floor, all designed in a matching style. Charlotte House is part of a group of five similar buildings on this side of the street, four of which were designed by the same architect. Nos. 44, 46, and 48 George Street were added to the list on May 31, 1979.