56, Chiswell Street

No. 56 Chiswell Street is a former public house built in the mid-to-late 18th century, with 19th-century stucco dressings and a public house frontage added in the mid-to-late 19th century. The building is constructed of brown brick laid in Flemish bond, with a roof that is obscured by a parapet.

It stands four storeys high over a basement and features four-window ranges facing Chiswell Street and Milton Street. The ground floor has a base of black polished granite and pilasters that create five bays on Milton Street and four on Chiswell Street. The pilasters at each end of the frontages flank the corner entrance and divide the Milton Street frontage. These pilasters have Corinthian capitals and support consoles and pedimented fascia stops. The ground floor also includes a fascia and cornice, while the third and fifth bays from the south in Milton Street and the second and fourth from the west in Chiswell Street retain their original mid-to-late 19th-century windows.

The upper windows are all flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves. The third and fourth windows from the south in Milton Street are blank on all floors. The first-floor windows feature cornices on consoles and stucco panels above that connect to the sills of the second-floor windows. The third-floor windows have bracketed sills, and there is a bracketed eaves cornice and blocking course. Central raised panels on each front are flanked by scrolled consoles.

There are no notable interior features on the ground floor.