Nos. 17-25, NEWTON STREET, and Nos. 32 and 34, DALE STREET

Nos. 17-25 on Newton Street and Nos. 32 and 34 on Dale Street are late 19th-century shops and clothing warehouses with offices above. The buildings are constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and feature a mansard slate roof with skylights. They have a rectangular plan with a loading area at the rear left corner and rise four storeys plus an attic. The facade has seven windows, including curved corners, and is adorned with sill and head bands on all upper floors, quoined strips at the corners, a prominent bracketed cornice, and an attic designed to look like a high parapet.

The ground floor features a central segmental-headed doorway with an elaborate classical-style pedimented architrave, while the rest of the ground floor is occupied by 20th-century shop fronts. The upper floors, including the attic, are fitted with 4-pane sashed windows, with curved sashes at the corners. The first-floor windows have quoined jambs, the second-floor windows are segmental-headed, and the second, third, and fifth floors have keyed architraves and cornices on consoles. The third-floor windows are topped with pediments, except at the corners, and the attic has smaller windows with keyed segmental heads and gablets with finials, interspersed with six chimneys that rise from the parapet. The left return wall features tripartite windows near the rear and a full-height loading slot beneath a gablet, while the right-hand return wall faces Dale Street. In 1905, No. 21 was occupied by ten separate offices, mostly for commission agents.