Orleans House

Orleans House is an office building constructed in 1907 by the architects Matear and Simon. It features buff brick with stone dressings, a granite basement, and cast iron framed windows on some elevations, topped with a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan with two light wells on Earle Street. The facade facing Edmund Street is five storeys high, with a basement and attic, and consists of five window bays between two blank end bays. All windows are sashed without glazing bars, arranged in pairs with cast iron mullions and lintels, while the ground floor windows have wedge lintels. Stone panels are positioned between the floors, and there is a deep cornice on the trighiphs. The roof is gambrel with flat-topped dormers, and the end bays feature stone date panels and terminate in truncated stacks.

The Bixteth Street elevation is of particular interest, comprising a basement and three blocks of five storeys with attics, connected by blocks of three storeys and two bays. This elevation showcases a cast iron facade with panelled pilasters, entablatures, and decorated panels beneath tripartite windows. The attics are treated similarly to the Edmund Street facade. Orleans House is an important example of curtain walling.