17A and 19 Baillie Street

17A and 19 Baillie Street are a pair of commercial buildings of 19th-century origin, listed Grade II.

No. 17A is a three-storey warehouse with basement, built of orange brick in English garden wall bond (3:1) with a rectangular plan and narrow three-bay frontage onto Baillie Street. The front elevation features two giant stone pilasters flanking the raised ground floor, each topped with stone modillion cornices and semi-circular finials, supporting a first-floor stone sill band. The central bay contains a large segmental-arched doorway with a stone doorcase having rusticated pilasters, a giant keystone, and an entablature with modillion cornice and semi-circular finials. The door and overlight are modern replacements. On either side are large segmental-arched ground-floor windows with stone keystones and sills. Below these are barred basement windows with stone segmental-arched heads and keystones. The first and second floors each have three equally-spaced segmental-arched windows with stone keystones and sill bands; historic photographs show the ground-floor windows were originally four-pane sashes and the upper windows twelve-pane with hopper or pivot vents. All window frames are modern replacements. A low brick parapet with cream brick eaves cornice crowns the elevation.

The west side elevation onto the service road comprises five bays. The central bay contains a full-height loading bay with partially altered original openings; historic lifting gear is no longer present. Windows have segmental-arched brick heads and stone sills with modern replacements. Basement windows are similarly treated; the left-hand ground-floor and basement windows are blind. The rear elevation has three bays and three storeys with a wide loading bay on the right with stone jambs and pintel stones. Adjacent is a blocked doorway with a segmental-arched window to its left. Above are three half-height segmental-arched windows, all boarded. The two upper floors each contain three segmental-arched windows with stone sills and modern frames.

Internally, the raised ground floor retains no original office partitioning or reception area. The original open-plan upper floors for goods storage are now subdivided by modern partition walls. The principal staircase in the south-east corner adjacent to the main entrance has turned timber newels, moulded handrails, and decorative cast-iron balusters, some currently boarded. The rear service bay retains a stone flag floor. A rear staircase has been inserted in the north-west corner in modern times.

No. 19 has a rectangular plan with modern rear extension and three-bay frontage onto Baillie Street. It is two storeys over basement, the latter visible only as a grilled rectangular area set in the pavement to the right of the elevation. The ground floor is faced in ashlar stone; the first floor is orange brick with stone dressings. Ground-floor bays are defined by giant chamfered stone pilasters supporting an entablature with modillion cornice at first-floor level. The left-hand bay contains a doorway with two windows to the right, all with segmental-arched heads and giant keystones; panels sit beneath the windows. The present single door replaces an original pair of panelled, part-glazed doors shown in historic photographs; the overlight is blocked. Window frames are modern replacements; historically all were sashes.

The first floor has a brick parapet with a small central triangular pediment. Bays are defined by brick pilasters with stone bases rising to support a stone modillion eaves band and stone parapet coping with semi-circular finials over the pilasters. The central window is round-headed with a segmental-arched window to each side, all with moulded stone surrounds and giant keystones; all frames are modern replacements.

No original fixtures or fittings remain on the interior. Cross walls between front and rear rooms have been removed on both floors.

20th and 21st-century internal partition walls, bar fixtures and fittings in No. 17A, and 20th and 21st-century internal fixtures and fittings in No. 19, are excluded from the listing as they are not of special architectural or historic interest. The modern two-storey rear extension to No. 19 is also excluded.