Numbers 315-325 with Attached Verandah

Numbers 319-325 with attached verandah are shops with offices above, dating to 1898 and altered. The building was designed by T Hodge and is constructed of red brick with sandstone and red terracotta dressings, and a concealed roof that is likely slate. The architectural style is eclectic, featuring Moorish details on the second floor.

The building has three storeys and four bays. The upper floors have brick pilasters defining each bay, with moulded brick corbel tables. The outer bays are taller and designed as turrets, featuring elaborate enrichment including tourelles with twisted stone shafts, carved tops with onion finials, and brick machicolation with moulded stone cresting.

The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts. The first floor has large, four-light bay windows, with transoms, cusped enrichment to the top lights, decorated friezes, and dentilled cornices; notably, the centre bays’ original bay windows were replaced with 20th-century transomed windows. The second floor has horseshoe arched windows of Moorish design, arranged in a 1:2:2:1 pattern, with pointed or banded circular stone arches, and enriched colonnettes. The walls above the windows are decorated with patterned terracotta tiling.

The attached four-bay verandah has cast-iron columns with acanthus enrichment to the pedestals and volute caps. It also has shallow arched brackets supporting the beam, roses in the spandrels, plain fascia with cresting, and a curved glass roof.

The interior has not been inspected. The building forms a group with numbers 311-317 to the left, and 331 to the right, and the verandah is characteristic of this streetscape.