Cauis House

Cauis House is a building that now serves as one retail shop and a department store. It was constructed in the early 18th century and has undergone significant alterations in the mid-20th century, particularly to its interior. The structure is made of brick and features roofs covered with black glazed pantiles. It stands two storeys tall with an attic storey, arranged in a seven-bay layout divided into a 2-3-2 rhythm. Each bay is highlighted by brick giant pilasters with rendered block architraves that rise to a metope frieze. Above the frieze, there is a parapet that extends into the attic storey, which is topped with a pediment featuring an oculus above the central three bays.

The central entrance is framed by a doorcase consisting of a pair of Tuscan columns supporting a metope frieze and a dentilled pediment, with a glazed 20th-century door. To the left of the entrance is a second door, and immediately to the right is a plate glass shop display window. The two side groups of two bays each have late 20th-century glazed shop fronts that serve as the actual entrances. The first floor is illuminated by seven sash windows with glazing bars, which are set beneath gauged skewback arches with keystones. There are also four attic sash windows. The building has a hipped roof with a ridge stack located left of centre.

At the south end, a cross wing extends southwest and consists of two builds, both two storeys tall with a dormer attic. This section features scattered sash windows. The rear of the building also has sash windows and three hipped dormers in the roof, with stacks on the ridge of the cross wing.

Inside, there is an open string staircase with three twisted balusters on turned bases for each tread, featuring scrolled tread-ends. The staircase has a moulded handrail and fluted newel columns, along with a panelled dado. The stairwell is adorned with a cornice decorated with egg-and-dart and key interlace, which is said to be echoed under the suspended ceiling of the west ground-floor room. The interior has largely been opened up into a showroom.