Monument Buildings

Monument Buildings are offices that have been converted into shops, built between 1902 and 1908 by the North Eastern Railway Architects Department. The building is constructed of ashlar with granite and ashlar dressings, featuring a gabled and hipped slate roof with a coped gable stack. It is designed in the Jacobean Revival style.

The exterior includes a ground floor cornice, a dentillated main cornice, and a coped parapet with pedestals topped with urns. The building has three storeys plus attics and a six-window range. The symmetrical five-window section on the right features a central square bay window with a three-light window on each floor and a cartouche between the floors. Above this, there is a shaped gable containing a cartouche and topped with a finial. On either side, there are plain square bay windows with three-light windows on each floor. Further along, there is a larger projecting bay with a canted two-storey bay window and a cartouche between the floors. Above this bay, a gable contains a round window with two keystones and drapery, fronted by a canted balustrade, and topped with a stilted segmental pediment.

To the left, a smaller square bay window has a two-light window on each floor. The ground floor features a central granite doorcase with rusticated Ionic pilasters and a broken segmental pediment containing a cartouche with a datestone. The moulded round-arched doorway has a console keystone and a fanlight shaped like a Diocletian window. To the left, there are three segment-headed shop front openings with keystones, separated by granite pilasters, and to the right, there are two similar openings.

The left return of the building has a three-storey turret topped with a spire and lead finial. Each of the upper floors features a three-light window, while the first-floor window is blocked. On the ground floor, there is a round-arched opening with a keystone and imposts, along with a leaded fanlight.