Lionesse House

Lionesse House is a building that was originally constructed as shipping warehouses around 1880-1890 and is now used for a bank and offices. It features red brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The building has an almost rectangular shape, situated on an island site parallel to the street, with a canted corner at No.54. It stands four storeys tall with basements and attics, comprising eight bays, each with two windows, plus the canted corner which has one window on each side.

The ground floor is distinguished by an arcaded design featuring round-headed arches with keystones and linked hoodmoulds. There is a round-headed doorway in the fourth bay with a pilastered surround that includes a keystone, carved spandrels, and a cornice on brackets. An inserted doorway is located in the sixth bay, while the other bays have windows with altered glazing. The upper floors are characterized by shallow rectangular two-storey oriels in alternate bays, complete with pilasters and balustraded parapets, and square-headed windows throughout, all featuring stone lintels and sash windows without glazing bars.

The building has a mansard roof with low flat-roofed dormers and a slated pyramidal turret-roof at the right-hand corner. The right-hand return side is simpler, but it includes two pedimented attic dormers. Lionesse House is part of an uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings along this side of Princess Street.