49, Spring Gardens

49 Spring Gardens is a commercial building, likely originally a textiles warehouse, now used as offices. It was constructed between 1888 and 1891 by Alfred Waterhouse. The building is made of sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan on an end-of-block site with curved corners and a loading bay at the rear. The architectural style is eclectic, incorporating some Gothic elements.

The structure stands three storeys high with a basement and attic, featuring five unequal bays plus the corners, arranged symmetrically. It has sill-bands and string-courses on all floors, a Lombard frieze above the second floor, slender brackets supporting a moulded cornice, and a blind-arcaded parapet that is interrupted by gabled attic dormers.

The central bay features a large square-headed entrance with an arched chamfered doorway and recessed double doors. Above this entrance is a bracketed stone balcony with ornamental iron railings. The windows on all floors, including the basement, are arranged in the pattern of 2, 3, 2, 3, and 2 lights. The basement windows are square-headed and equipped with iron bar grilles, while the windows on the three main floors have stilted shouldered heads and colonnettes topped with knobbly foliated caps and square abaci. All windows are sashed without glazing bars. The curved corners have matching 3-light windows with curved glazing, and the attic dormers feature coped gables with kneelers, ball-finials on the apexes and the kneelers, and windows that have altered glazing. The roof is mansard with side-wall chimneys. The returned sides are similar, with the left side featuring a segmental-headed loading bay entrance to the rear bay. The interior has not been inspected.