Albany Buildings And Verandah Attached To Numbers 339-343

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SD3317SE LORD STREET 664-1/12/84 (West side) 15/11/72 Nos.339-353 (Odd) Albany Buildings and verandah attached to Nos 339-343 (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos.335, 339-343 (Odd))

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Block of shops with offices over, and verandah attached to Nos 339-343. 1882, altered. By EW Johnson. Red brick in stretcher bond with sandstone dressings, some red tiles and applied half-timbering, slate roofs. Eclectic style with some Gothic and some Neo-Tudor features. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics; 5 unequal bays, formerly symmetrical, with 2 pairs of gabled bays flanking a narrow centre which has a passage entry at ground floor and a small pinnacled balustrade between the inner gables. The ground floor has C20 shop fronts. The upper floors are pilastered and elaborately featured: at first floor the 2 bays to the left have canted oriels under tiled pentice roofs on brackets, but the 2 bays to the right, formerly similar, have C20 flush windows with rendered surrounds painted white; at second floor all the gabled bays have 3-light windows with elaborate stone surrounds including pairs of colonettes variously enriched, those in the outer bays with shouldered heads and those in the inner bays with Gothic 2-centred arches and carved tympani. At attic level the inner bays have gables with pairs of small oculi, sunk panels above these lettered: ALBANY BUILDINGS, and ridged copings with crockets, that to the left surmounted by a lion displaying a shield (the other now lacking this); while the outer bays have balconies, that to the right in the form of a gallery with elaborately-carved woodwork carrying a projected half-timbered gable but that to the left remodelled and its gable set back. The verandah attached to Nos 339-343 has 4 slender cast-iron columns with enriched pedestals and small crocket caps, and a single-pitched glass roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Nos 335 & 337 adjoining to the left (qv) and Nos 355 & 357 adjoining to the right (qv); and the verandah is part of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3363917377