Royal Buildings With Attached Verandah

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SD3317SW LORD STREET 664-1/11/61 (West side) 15/11/72 Nos.127-133 (Odd) Royal Buildings with attached verandah (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET (West side) Nos.127-133 (Odd))

GV II

Commercial building with attached verandah. Dated 1883 in pediment. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof; verandah of cast-iron and glass. Classical style. Parallelogram plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 8-window range. Symmetrical; with pilasters, sill bands to both upper floors and a band below the upper of these lettered: ROYAL BUILDINGS. Moulded cornice with blocking course and wide pediment to the centre. The ground floor has shop fronts protected by an elaborate 5-bay verandah with cast-iron columns, foliated brackets, a lettered frieze and a shallow gabled centre with arched stained glass overlight lettered: T.R.HIGHTON. Flanking bays have gabled open-work cresting. Both upper floors have round-headed windows in pairs, those at first floor linked by a moulded impost band carried across as dentilled transoms. The pediment contains a large roundel flanked by carving including the date 1883. Gable chimneys, that to the left cut down. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Nos 137-141 (qv) adjoining to the right.

Listing NGR: SD3334217122