29 and 31, Dale Street

This is a home trade warehouse, workshops, and offices built in 1909 by Walter and George Higginbottom. It is now used as fashion wholesalers' premises. The building is constructed with an iron frame, clad in bright red brick laid in an English garden wall bond, with limestone dressings, and has a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan with loading facilities at the rear.

The symmetrical, seven-bay facade is divided by piers that act as pilasters, extending to the attic level, and by moulded stone cornices above the ground and third floors. The first attic storey is treated as a high parapet. The ground floor has wide, segmental-headed windows with banded surrounds, triple keystones, although the sixth bay has been altered into a doorway for No.31 and features a plain fascia board. A central entrance is framed by a round-headed, two-storey arch with a round-headed doorway at ground level, a transomed semicircular window above, and an open pediment above that. The upper floors have three-light windows, with those in the end and centre bays being canted. Most windows are sash, except those on the third floor of the intermediate bays, which have elliptical arched heads, bands, keystones, and transomed glazing. The attic parapet features three small sash windows set within round-headed arches containing shell tympani, topped with a ramped coping. Dormers projecting from a mansard roof contain three-light sashes, with the central dormer having a pilastered gable and a Venetian-style window. All windows have glazing bars in the upper sashes. The side walls, in five bays, are of a simpler style and have entrances on opposite sides to the rear loading area.

The interior has not been inspected.

The building was occupied in 1905 by umbrella manufacturers and the Belgian and Congo Free States Consulate. It is included on the list for its group value. The architects were Walter Higginbottom (1850-1924) and George Harry Higginbottom (1852-). It's important to distinguish them from William Herbert Higginbottom (1868–1929).