Union Marine Buildings, Original Part By Sir James Picton Only

The Union Marine Buildings, originally designed by Sir James Picton, is an office building completed in 1868. It features ashlar stonework with a granite basement. The facade has six bays, with an additional five bays facing Hackins Hey. The basement is rusticated, while the ground floor includes round-headed windows with keystones and granite panels in between. The entrance is located in the first bay, characterized by a round-headed design with a keystone and a round hood supported by brackets, which displays arms. Above, the first floor has six windows framed by pilastered architraves and a dentilled cornice, beneath shallow balustraded balconies that extend from the round-arched windows on the top floor, which are adorned with columns featuring foliated capitals. The building is capped with a very heavy cornice that has cable moulding and projects over round-arched machicolations, with round-headed attic lights above.