8, MINSHULL STREET (See details for further address information)

No. 8 Minshull Street, which also includes No. 42 Bloom Street, is a shipping warehouse converted into offices, built in the mid to late 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a concealed roof. It has a rectangular plan oriented at right angles to Minshull Street, featuring a loading bay on its long side facing Bloom Street.

Designed in a palazzo style, the structure has a basement and four storeys. The facade facing Minshull Street has five bays, while the Bloom Street side has ten bays. The basement is made of ashlar stone, and there are sill-bands on all floors, which are decorated differently, along with a corbel-table at the cornice.

On the front, the fourth bay features a large sandstone architrave with coupled round-headed doorways flanked by colonnettes topped with foliated caps. A carved roundel is positioned between the doorways, and a semicircular arched hoodmould spans both doorways, with carved spandrels. The second and fourth bays on all floors have coupled windows, except for the top floor where all windows are coupled. The ground and second floor windows are round-headed, most with colonnettes, alternating with shouldered or stilted segmental-headed single windows. The second and third floor windows have hoodmoulds linked by bands, with the third floor windows being coupled with stilted segmental heads. All windows are sashed.

The left side wall contains a doorway in the fourth bay (No. 42 Bloom Street) next to a segmental-headed loading bay entrance. This side also features coupled round-headed windows on the ground and second floors, coupled segmental-headed windows on the first floor, and a grouping of segmental-headed windows in sets of five, two, five, and four on the third floor. At the center of the eaves, there is a gabled attic with a triple window, and the loading bay includes a wall-crane. The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a group with No. 10 Minshull Street to the left, No. 11 Bloom Street at the rear, and the City Police Courts diagonally opposite.