Watts Brothers

Watts Brothers is a hardware and furniture warehouse, now used as offices, built in 1898. It features red brick in Flemish bond with red sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan positioned at right angles to the street, with a loading bay at the rear. Designed in a Free Elizabethan style, it consists of a basement, four storeys, and an attic, with four bays. The façade includes a plinth, a cornice over the ground floor, and slightly projected outer bays topped with tall shaped gables. Chamfered shafts pierce a prominent cornice.

On the ground floor, there is a large round-headed doorway to the left with convex jambs, a moulded head, and a keystone cartouche inscribed with "24". This is complemented by a prominent cornice on elongated consoles. To the right of the doorway is a mullioned two-light window above a basement doorway, along with two altered windows further right. The upper floors feature the two central bays with three-storey elliptical-headed arches, each containing three-light windows. The outer bays have vertical-rectangular windows, with panelled aprons on the second floor and large carved aprons on the third floor, marked "18" and "98" respectively. The attic includes three-light mullioned windows in the centre bays and vertical windows in the gables, adorned with ornamental architraves and oculi in steeply-swept gables that are finished with small segmental pediments. The right-hand return wall has two bays that match the main style, continuing with an eight-window range of white glazed brick, which extends down to two storeys at the rear, where the loading bay is located. The interior has not been inspected.