5 and 7 South Street

A pair of dwellings with ground floor shops were constructed in the late 18th century and subsequently extended throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are constructed of red brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with number 5 painted white. Both have timber shop fronts facing South Street and a slate roof.

The original 18th-century front range has a rectangular, two-unit plan with principal elevations facing west towards South Street, and a passage situated between the two buildings. Number 7 has been extended more extensively to the rear, resulting in a long, narrow plan.

The buildings are three storeys high with a basement, and have a half-hipped roof with dentillated eaves on the west elevation. A brick chimney stack rises from the southern party wall of number 7. The facades above the ground-floor shop fronts are symmetrical, featuring a single, centrally-placed timber sash window under a segmental brick arch on the first and second floors, set within timber surrounds that are slightly recessed within the brick façade. Number 5 has a six-over-one pane window on the first floor and a nine-over-one pane window on the second floor. Both windows at number 7 have six-over-six pane glazing. The mid-to-late 20th-century shop front at number 5 features a large plate glass window over a tiled step, with plain flanking pilasters and a plain fascia board. The late 19th- or early 20th-century shop front at number 7 has a stucco stall riser with a barred cellar window, and a large plate glass shop window flanked by fluted pilasters. The main entrance to number 7 is a half-glazed 20th-century door with a moulded over light, flanked by fluted pilasters (the southern pilaster shared with the shop window). To the north, the passageway entrance is incorporated into the timber and stucco shop front, also flanked by fluted pilasters, and has a wide plank door. A timber fascia board and flat, lead-coped hood extend across the shop front and passageway. Each property has a cross wing projecting eastwards under a gable roof, with both properties also having rear extensions; number 7 features a long, one to two storey range under a pitched roof, while the extension at number 5 appears to be a single storey with a flat roof.