83, Princess Street

No. 83 Princess Street is a home trade warehouse built around 1847-1848 by Travis and Mangnall, which has since been altered and is now used as shops and offices. The building features a sandstone ashlar ground floor and red brick with sandstone dressings above, with a shallow rectangular plan that runs parallel to the street on an end-of-block site. It stands four storeys tall over a high basement and has nine bays.

The ground floor has a cornice, stone quoins, and brick pilasters on the upper floors, with sill-bands on the second and third floors, and a moulded stone cornice topped with short square chimneys. The basement and ground floor are designed as a tall arcade of round-headed arches, featuring a moulded impost band on the piers. The arches have stepped voussoirs and set-in reveals, with imposts and volute keystones. The third bay contains a doorway, while the other bays are divided equally between basement and ground floor windows.

Large round-headed windows are present on the first and second floors, complete with keystones and linking impost bands. The third floor features pairs of small round-headed windows, also with keystones. The glazing has been altered. The left return wall facing George Street has three bays in a similar style, with one central arch on the ground floor flanked by doorways under square overlights. The right-hand return wall is mostly blind, with small inserted cloakroom windows. This building forms a group with Nos. 39 and 41 George Street, which is attached to the rear.