Waterloo House

Waterloo House is a warehouse built in 1868, now used as offices, and was restored around 1977. It was designed by Edward Birchall for Walter Stead. The building features ashlar and polychrome brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof with late 20th-century dormers. It is in the Gothic Revival style and consists of four storeys over a basement, with seven bays. The entrance bay, which is the sixth, has a porch supported by polished pink granite columns with carved capitals and a stone roof. The ground floor has ashlar with moulded depressed arch windows that include pilaster shafts and carved capitals. The first and second floors feature windows in a pointed-arch arcade with brick pilasters and moulded capitals, while the third floor has narrow windows set in an arcade of 21 round arches. There is a heavy stone modillion cornice with cast-iron cresting and octagonal brick finials topped with stone caps. The interior was gutted by fire around 1977 and has since been rebuilt. Walter Stead was a cloth manufacturer located at No. 60 Wellington Street in 1870, next door to this warehouse, which by 1886 had become the woollen warehouse of Joshua Wilson and Sons.