1 And 3, Coal Street

1 and 3 Coal Street are a pair of warehouses built in the early to mid-19th century. They were altered and renovated in 1994. Constructed from coursed squared sandstone, the buildings are designed as a gabled pair that flank the entrance to a courtyard known as Paradise Street, connected by a 20th-century bridge at the third floor.

Each warehouse is four stories tall, with No. 1 having a basement. The narrow gabled facades feature a continuous full-height loading slot in the center, equipped with wooden doors on all floors, a timber lintel, and a blocked square opening above for a former hoist jib. The gables are coped. The openings on the two buildings differ slightly: No. 1 has a ground floor doorway on the right with a plain surround and an altered door, a blocked basement window on the left, tall windows on the first and second floors, and shorter windows on the third floor. No. 3 has a doorway on the left, now covered by a sliding door, and an inserted doorway on the right. Its upper floors feature small windows on the left and four-pane sashed windows on the right. All windows have replacement four-pane sashed glazing with exposed boxes.

The inner return walls of the buildings have blocked windows in the basement of No. 1 and the ground floor of No. 3, with sashed windows on the upper floors similar to those at the front. The rear gable walls of both warehouses now have three replacement four-pane sashed windows on each floor above the ground floor. The interior was not accessible during the inspection, but heavy timber beams are visible through the windows of the north block.

This pair of warehouses is an unusual and reasonably intact example of a type of commercial and industrial building typical of textile manufacturing towns in the early 19th century, possibly built by a putting-out manufacturer.