Former Pickles Building

The Former Pickles Building is a shipping warehouse, now used as offices, built in 1870 by Clegg and Knowles. It features a sandstone ashlar exterior and a slate roof, situated on a trapeziform corner site with an integral loading bay at the rear. The building exhibits an eclectic architectural style with some Gothic elements. It stands five storeys tall with a basement and an added attic, comprising three bays that include 3, 4, and 3-light windows, along with curved corners.

Notable architectural details include a chamfered plinth, a shallow Lombard frieze above the ground floor, moulded sill-bands on the third and fourth floors, and carved impost bands on all floors except the first. The building is topped with a bracketed cornice that extends around the structure, leading to a 20th-century mansard roof.

At each corner, there is a stilted segmental-headed doorway with a pilastered surround, featuring set-in shafts with foliated caps, a mask key-block, carved spandrels, and a cornice on short shafts with carved heads. The tall divided doors have shaped panels. The basement includes shouldered windows with iron grilles, while the upper floors have recessed sashed windows set in reveals with shafts that have foliated caps. The ground floor windows have stilted arched heads and hoodmoulds, the first-floor windows are square-headed, the second and third-floor windows are round-headed with 2-centred arched hoodmoulds, and the fourth-floor windows have shouldered heads. Quatrefoil panels are located between the first and second floor windows.

The right-hand return facing Princess Street has six bays with 2-light windows in a matching style and a segmental-headed loading bay entrance on the right.