23 And 25, Great George Street

23 and 25 Great George Street is a pair of offices and warehouses built in 1848-49 for Schunk, Souchay and Co., who were international stuff and yarn merchants. The building features orange-pink brick in Flemish bond on the front and dark red brick in English Garden Wall bond at the rear, with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and has twelve bays, with rear wings creating a U-shaped plan. The basement is rusticated ashlar, and there are sill bands on the first and second floors. A shallow cornice with foliage-decorated end consoles and a plain parapet replaces the former bracketed cornice. The basement windows are protected by iron railings, although those from bay 4 have been removed; three windows are blocked, and two have wooden slats.

On the ground floor, the outer bays feature doorways with architraves that have dentilled console cornices and blocking courses, each requiring a step up. The left doorway leads to a four-panel double door with an eight-pane overlight, while the right doorway has its lower part blocked and a window in the upper part. The windows are 16-pane sashes set beneath cambered gauged brick arches with stone sills. On the fourth floor, the windows in bays 10 and 11 have raised lintels instead of arches, and the sashes in bays 1 to 5 have been replaced by 20th-century central-pivoted windows. The rear of the building retains many 16-pane sashes, also with cambered gauged brick arches and stone sills. The main range has a ground-floor doorway accessed by a flight of steps, with a wide inserted opening to its right. In the left return of the right wing, the third bay has wide, segmental-arched loading doorways that are now infilled. The building features paired modillion gutter brackets, and the left wing has a later extension that is not of special interest. The interior has not been inspected.