Pelican Works

Pelican Works is a two-storey building dating from around 1860 to 1870, designed in a palazzo style. It features a seven-bay front made of red brick with stucco dressings. The ground floor has a central arched entrance framed heavily, with an entablature that supports a blind balustrade above the entrance, leading to the upper window. On either side, there are three-bay arcades set on a black brick plinth. The first floor contains sash windows, each with segmental stucco keyed arches and panels beneath the sill course. The building has a bracketed eaves cornice with a parapet, which includes intermittent openwork panels and a central blocking course inscribed with "Pelican Works," topped by a pelican with outspread wings. The right-hand return to Hockley Street features four similar window bays and a long, three-storey range of shops with segmental arched iron frame windows on sill bands, along with a brick dentil eaves cornice. At the far end of this range, there is a segmental waggon arch.