1 Lune Street

1 Lune Street is a former Friendly Society office, rebuilt in the late 19th century for a society established in 1831, with slight alterations made in the late 20th century. The building features polished dark brown granite at the ground floor and red brick with sandstone dressings above, topped with a slate roof. It has a shallow rectangular plan on a corner site with a chamfered corner, designed in the Baroque style.

The structure stands three storeys high, plus a corner turret, with a three-window facade facing Lune Street and a one-window facade on Fishergate. Notable architectural details include stone bands, a frieze, a modillioned cornice, and a panelled and balustraded parapet. The ground floor showcases channelled rusticated polished granite and wide segmental-arched windows with triple keystones, the central window being wider, and the sills have been recently lowered, although this alteration is not currently detectable. The chamfered corner features a doorway with a moulded architrave that includes a triple keystone, set beneath a prominent open segmental pediment.

On the first floor, there is a tripartite window in the center with an architrave that includes a triple keystone and an open segmental pediment, flanked by single-light windows on each side with similar architraves, minus the pediment. The second floor has single-light windows with simpler architraves. The windows on the Fishergate facade mirror those of the central section.

The canted corner is accentuated by an elaborately enriched corbel that supports a tall five-sided oriel with narrow windows on the second floor. This oriel is topped above the cornice by an octagonal turret featuring small round-headed keyed windows, a prominent bracketed cornice, and a domed copper cap with a finial. The interior retains good original features.