Nos. 1-7 PRINCESS STREET, Nos. 59 and 61, CROSS STREET

Nos. 1-7 Princess Street and Nos. 59 and 61 Cross Street are shops and offices built in 1877 by Pennington and Bridgen, with some alterations. The building is made of red brick with sandstone dressings and features a red tiled roof. It has a curved trapeziform plan, situated on an end-of-block site, and is designed in the Gothic style. The structure rises four storeys with an attic and includes eight windows, with prominent features on the corner and along Cross Street.

The ground floor has a stone base and frieze adorned with Tudor-flower and grotesque ornamentation. Slender chamfered shafts of brick and stone lead up to large gables on each main facade, with two smaller gables over the corner, all topped with tourelles and finials. These are connected by open-work parapets, and there is a stone spirelet at the end of the Cross Street facade. The roof is steeply pitched, featuring small hipped dormers and large clustered chimneys.

On the ground floor, each facade has two wide elliptical-arched windows with moulded heads, and a 2-centred arched doorway to the left of the Princess Street facade, which includes carved enrichment and a traceried overlight. The corner has 20th-century shopfronts inserted. The first and second floors showcase tiered mullion-and-transom windows in the gabled bays, with canted windows in the main facades and bowed windows at the corner. These are separated by terracotta traceried panels and elaborately traceried open-work parapets. The third floor primarily features 2-light windows with Gothic detailing, including two in the Princess Street facade that have carved stone gablets. The gables are adorned with 2-centred arched windows that include tracery.