109, Princess Street

No. 109 on Princess Street is a packing and shipping warehouse, now used as offices, built in 1863 by Clegg and Knowles. The building is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and has a rectangular plan situated at right angles to the street. It is designed in the Italian palazzo style and features four storeys over a basement, with eight symmetrical bays.

The ground floor has a rusticated punch-dressed plinth and narrow chamfered corners, with channelled rustication in the centre and rusticated quoins at the angles. Above the ground floor, there is a cornice, sill-bands on all upper floors, an enriched frieze, and a bracketed cornice. The ground floor includes round-headed arcades arranged in a 3:1:3 bay pattern, with a central doorway that has a rusticated surround, set-in polished shafts with carved capitals, a moulded head featuring a volute keystone, and carved spandrels. This doorway is topped by a prominent cornice supported by pairs of heavily decorated brackets and ornamental iron balcony railings. The flanking arches rest on brick piers with moulded stone heads, keystones, and linking imposts, leading to tall basement openings with decorated cast-iron railings and shorter windows with altered glazing.

The first and second floors have segmental-headed sashed windows with set-in shafts, moulded imposts, and stilted stone heads with keystones, while the third floor features round-headed sashes with similar decorative elements. The left side wall, facing Bloom Street, has ten bays in a matching style, including a segmental-headed loading bay entrance near the far end. This building forms a group with Nos 105 and 107 to the left.