Former Savoy Picture House

The former Savoy Picture House, now shops and a restaurant, was built in 1920 by Chadwick and Watson for Savoy Picture House Ltd. The front of the building is faced with white faience, while the rear is red brick. It is constructed in a Neo-classical style.

The building is three storeys high and has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement facing Victoria Street. The outer bays project forward, and the corner with East St Mary's Gate has a curved facade extending for one bay. The entire front features channelled rustication.

Victoria Street’s front has a pair of wide plate-glass shop windows flanking a projecting, rusticated entrance bay. This entrance has a doorway set within an architrave, above which is a bracketed panel containing a circular overlight with glazing bars, all beneath a moulded round-arched hood. The corner section incorporates a recessed doorway flanked by single, narrower shop windows. An entablature is positioned at first-floor level. The upper section features a recessed, three-bay arcade with attached giant columns, rusticated blockwork bases, fluted necking, and Ionic-type capitals. Panels between the columns are rusticated, and there are cross-windows to the first floor, raised apron panels at second-floor level, and round-arched windows to the second floor with radial glazing bars and moulded arches topped with tall keystones supporting swags. Similar round-arched recessed window panels flank the curved corner bay. A bay to the far left incorporates a recessed doorway and cross-windows to the first and second floors, separated by a raised apron panel. A full entablature with dentilled and modillioned cornices is topped by a blocking course forming a parapet, with a raised central panel. The roof is hipped.

The curved corner bay has a central raised panel with a pair of 2-light casements to the first and second floors, separated by a panel dated 1920. Above this is a fluted frieze and cornice, and a relief panel bearing the lettering “SAVOY PICTURE HOUSE,” flanked by wreaths. Above the lettering is a pulvinated laurel leaf frieze and a half dome surmounted by a loosely-clad female figure, a “flapper” with arms raised (formerly holding a tambourine). All windows feature glazing bars.

The front facing East St Mary's Gate consists of a three-storey, single-bay section with a faience facade and similar details to the Victoria Street front. The remainder of this elevation, over two and three storeys and comprising an eight-window range, has a late 20th-century shop front to the ground floor, above which is plain red brick with segmental-arched first-floor windows with glazing bars.

The interior has been altered by later 20th-century shop conversions.