Numbers 433-453 With Attached Verandah

A block of six shops with flats and offices above, dating to approximately 1880-90 and subsequently altered. The building is constructed of red brick in a stretcher bond, with some red tile hanging and sandstone dressings, and is designed in a Free Neo-Tudor style.

The building is rectangular, containing six units set at right angles to the street. It is four stories high and consists of five and a half bays, with a symmetrical arrangement of five full bays, and a three-bay central section with a triplet of projecting gables. The wider bays are flanked by pilasters and have been altered. The shop front in the fifth bay (Numbers 451 and 453) has an Art Deco design, featuring bronze and plate glass, a black marble plinth, a rectangular bronze border with Vitruvian scroll decoration, a recessed door with an oval plate-glass window, bronze facing to the lower half of the door, and three curved bronze handles. Plate-glass display windows flank the doorway, with a bronze rail above, and a deep tripartite overlight with small leaded panes.

The first floor features wooden mullion-and-transom oriels, alternating between rectangular and canted designs, each with tile-hung aprons and two arched glazing bars in the upper lights. The central three bays of the second floor have rectangular wooden oriels supported by brackets, above which are the triple jettied gables, also on brackets, with tile hanging including fishscale bands, a cross-window in each gable, and dentil bargeboards with finials. The outer bays at the second floor have two cross windows on each floor. Those at the second floor are fitted with elliptical arched brick heads, keystones and carved tympani, while those at the third floor are coupled and flanked by banded pilasters. The half-bay to the right has a similar window at first floor, with an enriched cornice, and a second-floor window matching those adjoining.

Attached to the building is a six-bay verandah, featuring short cast-iron columns with decorated pedestals and large Composite capitals, plain stilts with large foliated brackets, pierced friezes, and a curved glass roof. The sixth bay is an exception, lacking the brackets and frieze and featuring a single-pitched roof.

The interior has not been inspected. The building forms a group with Numbers 423-431 to the left and with Numbers 459-467 adjoining to the right, with the attached verandah being part of a series which characterizes the street.