3 and 5, Salisbury Street

A pair of houses, now flats, was built between 1877 and 1879 and later restored and altered in the 20th century. Designed by George Gilbert Scott Junior for John Spyvee Cooper, the building is constructed of brick with pargeted panels and has hipped plain tile roofs with six-panelled brick ridge stacks. It is executed in a Queen Anne style.

The building features a brick plinth, string courses, pargeted friezes, rebated eaves, wooden gutter brackets, and windows with brick flat arches. It is two storeys plus attics, with a six-window range and a half-H plan. The recessed central section contains four eight-pane sashes with pargeted aprons, separated by pargeted pilasters. Above these are three hipped dormers with two-light glazing bar casements. The ground floor features two late 20th-century doors with sidelights and toplights, flanked by single eight-pane sashes. The returns have a twelve-pane sash above and a four-pane and an eight-pane sash below. An L-plan pargeted brick wall with a string course and coping encloses the centre, incorporating a segment-headed doorway to the left.

Flanking wings each have a pair of segment-headed eight-pane sashes. Above, there is a large dormer with two segment-headed eighteen-pane sashes with a wavy lintel band, topped with a pedimented shaped gable containing a single small window. Below, square brick bay windows are present; the left one has a pair of leaded windows, and the right one has a pair of twelve-pane sashes. The left return has three eight-pane sashes and two hipped dormers with two-light glazing bar casements above. A segmental arched brick doorway with a hoodmould is located off-centre on the ground floor, with a round-arched unglazed opening above. A moulded six-panel door with an overlight and wrought-iron grille is set within this doorway. To the left of the doorway is an eighteen-pane sash, and to the right are two smaller sashes with leaded glazing. The outer windows are fitted with shaped brick hoodmoulds. The right return mirrors the fenestration, with a two-light unglazed opening above the door, featuring a brick mullion. All ground-floor windows are eighteen-pane sashes.

The building is part of a group of eight houses by Scott, considered the sole surviving examples of his highly regarded domestic architecture and demonstrating his expertise in the Queen Anne style.