Central Buildings

Central Buildings is an office building constructed in the 1870s. It features stone with a polished granite ground floor and stands four storeys tall with a basement. The building has 20 bays, with an 8-bay return to Matthew Street and an 11-bay return to Harrington Street. The ground floor includes a colonnade with an entablature and chamfered corners, featuring large round-arched entrances. The columns are adorned with a bronze band one-third of the way up, which runs across the facade, separating the fully glazed basement and ground floor.

On the first floor, there are round-arched windows arranged in a 2:5:5:2 pattern, complemented by panelled pilasters, a frieze, and a projecting cornice. The second floor has rectangular windows, while the top floor features 12 round-arched windows in the center and four rectangular windows on each side. The top cornice is supported by brackets and includes a blocking course. The facade design continues over four bays of each return, which then transition to more utilitarian white glazed brick facades.