3, Dale Street

A millinery warehouse, later used as clothing shops, built in the years 1900 to 1910. The building stands on a corner site at the junction of Dale Street and Spear Street. It is constructed with cast-iron columns and concrete floors, faced with red brick and ochre terracotta, with plinths of polished pink granite. The roof is concealed. The plan is rectangular, comprising a five-storey, four-window entrance block with a splayed corner, and a three-storey, six-window rear range extending along Spear Street. A basement runs beneath the entire building, and an attic is situated over the rear range.

The architectural style is simplified baroque. The facades are organised in rectilinear grids of large windows separated by vertical piers and horizontal bands, primarily of terracotta. The ground floor piers are treated as blocked columns, and the piers above are banded pilasters, with various moulded terracotta enrichments in an Art Nouveau style. The splayed corner is a three-sided porch with a segmental-headed doorway and overlight, sheltered by a segmental hood supported on decorated consoles. Windows are square-headed at the first and second floors, and segmental-headed at the third and fourth, with a dentil-moulded cornice arching over the top. Cartouches with pendants decorate the piers between the windows, with an upstand and a domed roof. A segmental open pediment balances the composition at the left-hand end bay. The ground floor has segmental-arched windows, with sloped basement windows directly below. The first floor features Venetian-style casement glazing in the three principal bays. The second floor has segmental-headed windows, while the fourth floor has flat-roofed, three-light windows with dentilled sill bands.

The rear range (to Spear Street) incorporates banded pilasters to the narrow end bay, mirroring the returned side of the entrance block, and matching basement and ground floor detailing to the front façade. Intermediate piers are primarily of brick, with segmental-headed windows on the second floor. A dentilled terracotta cornice runs along the top, and there are low, three-light attic windows with cornices arching over the centre lights. The interior remains uninspected. The building forms a group with 18 Oldham Street to the left and Sevendale House to the right.