49-53, Knight Street

This is an 18th-century building, although its proportions suggest an earlier 16th or 17th-century structure. It is L-shaped, with a secondary front facing Church Street. The building has a timber frame and plastered walls, topped with a steep roof covered in old red tiles. The roof is hipped at the corner and east end, and gabled to the north. It features a modillioned eaves cornice.

The west-facing side has two storeys and three windows. These windows are 18th-century flush box sashes with molded architraves and six-over-six panes. A 19th-century shopfront is present, characterized by slender pilasters and a full entablature projecting forward over scrolled brackets. A corner door has been blocked. The entablature extends around the corner, covering a small shop window on Church Street. There are also wide double doors (formerly glazed) on Church Street, decorated with similar pilasters, brackets, and an entablature.

The walls feature pargeting, arranged in small raised panels, above a low plinth. The first floor of Church Street has two low windows: one a flush sash, the other with a molded architrave and twelve-over-six panes, while a third window, of the same size, is a triple Victorian sash with one-over-one panes. An external gable chimney is situated to the north, with a smaller internal gable stack to the south.

A 19th-century single-story stucco extension, including a cellar, projects from the east end onto Church Street. A high plinth incorporates two cast iron cellar vents. A continuous cill band runs along the extension, below three narrow round-headed windows with deeply recessed glass. These windows are topped by keystones that extend up to a stucco modillioned cornice and a blocking course with molded coping. The ceiling follows the roof's slopes and has ornamental cast iron brackets.

A drawing by J.C. Buckler from 1834 shows the main building with a smaller shopfront on Knight Street, but retains the same roof form and general appearance. The building is an important feature in the street views from the west and south.