27 and 27a, Frederick Street B1

27 and 27A Frederick Street is a pair of former townhouses from around 1830, which have been altered to serve as offices in the jewellery quarter, with shopping extending into the rear. The building features a well-proportioned symmetrical Greek Revival design, consisting of a four-bay, three-storey main block flanked by narrow two-storey entrance bays, all faced with stucco. The main block slightly projects and is adorned with an engaged Greek Doric colonnade of coupled fluted columns and a deep entablature across the ground floor, which returns over the entrance bays.

There is a second-floor sill band designed as an entablature, with guttae supporting the projecting sills. Quoin pilasters are present on this floor, and a string course is broken forward to form a cornice over the windows. The main cornice and crowning parapet feature dentils. The ground floor has sash windows with plain reveals, while the upper floors have architrave surrounds, with the first-floor windows featuring full entablatures. The doorways in the flanking bays have splayed, eared architrave surrounds, with the right-hand doorway now serving as a garage entrance. The building has a consistently detailed and unaltered flank Doric elevation, making it a rare survival in the jewellery quarter and the city centre.