32, Parliament Street

32 Parliament Street is a former marble works, now a shop, built around 1870 with some alterations made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof. It has a symmetrical design with three storeys above a cellar and consists of five bays. The cellar openings are set within a battered rusticated plinth. The ground and first-floor windows showcase voussoirs made of alternating red and yellow sandstone, along with a red sandstone impost course. Below the sills of the second-floor windows is a string course, and beneath the third-floor window is a red sandstone course. The ground-floor windows are sashed with shallow two-centred arches and angle shafts. The first-floor windows have semicircular outer arches that recess two round-headed lights, separated by a central marble column, with a roundel featuring four pierced circles above. The second-floor windows each consist of two lights with voussoirs of alternating colours, central marble shafts, and rise into gabled dormers with copings. A stone gutter is supported by corbels. The central doorway features a shallow two-centred arch, roll-moulded in two orders with an outer hoodmould. The glazed doors and tiled steps are a late 20th-century alteration. There are chimneys on both the left and right sides. The left-hand return wall consists of two bays with simpler window details. Historically, in 1865, Richard Fawcett, a marble merchant and sculptor, was noted at Green Ayre, and by 1881, the premises were occupied by Anthony Bell and Sons, marble masons and sculptors. The building once housed a fine marble staircase.