Office Premises Of George Wright (Rotherham) Ltd

The office premises of George Wright (Rotherham) Ltd are an early 19th-century building originally constructed for Messrs. Tunnicliffe, Ball, Wheatley, Potter, and Brown. The structure is made of ashlar sandstone and features a coated slate roof. It is a single-storey building with a four-bay entrance front and a rear left wing that is not of special interest. The original three-bay entrance facade, now facing an enclosed yard, has been given a basement storey due to the fall of the land.

Designed in the Tudor Revival style, the facade includes a plinth, with the outer bays projecting forward. Each of these bays has a doorway flanked by monolithic piers and a cornice beneath the left doorway, which is boarded-up and leads to a through passage. The right doorway features part-glazed double doors. A continuous stringcourse rises as a hoodmould over a central three-light chamfered-mullion window.

The upper floor has outer bays flanked by attached octagonal shafts that rise as turrets, with each bay featuring an apron panel of shields and a string course beneath a Tudor-arched opening, with the first bay's opening being blind. The central bay has a plain apron and string course beneath a three-light mullioned window with ogee-headed lights and hoodmoulds that have blank-shield stops. The facade is topped with a continuous moulded cornice beneath a parapet that steps up over a central blank shield, and there are miniature embattlements on the outer bays and turrets.

The front of the building is less ornate, with a doorway in the second bay featuring double doors, each with a foiled light and a deeply-chamfered surround. There are hoodmoulds over the flanking windows and a large Tudor-arched opening to the basement through-passage on the right, which has a large moulded corbel and a single-light window above it. Historical records indicate that the buildings served as lawyer's offices from 1777 to 1887, although it is unlikely that the current offices predate the early 19th century.