Royal Victoria Buildings

The Royal Victoria Buildings is an office building that includes a billiard hall, now disused offices, a bank, and a shop. It was built in 1900 and has undergone alterations in the mid and late 20th century. Designed by John Henry Bryars, the building features brown glazed brick with ashlar dressings and a slate mansard roof.

The exterior showcases moulded sillbands and string courses, and the structure consists of three storeys plus attics, arranged in a triangular plan with canted corners. Each corner has an external stack with coped triple octagonal flues, two of which have datestones in cartouches. The windows are primarily plain sashes. The street front has a central bay defined by octagonal pilasters topped with pinnacles. On the upper floors, there is a sash window flanked by narrower sidelights, with two additional sashes beyond. The attic features a central crowstep gable with a finial and an oval window, flanked by box dormers that have three-light windows and segmental pediments. The ground floor has late 20th-century polished stone cladding, with three square casements to the left, accompanied by a panelled double door and overlight, and to the right, an angled recess containing a shop doorway and two windows.

The left return, facing the riverside, mirrors the design of the street front and retains its original fenestration on all floors. The Royal Victoria Buildings complements the Royal Exchange Buildings across the road and is part of the same development scheme, as noted in the deposited plan from 1899.