Carmelite House

Carmelite House, located at No. 8 Carmelite Street, is a late 19th-century building that also includes Nos 1 to 5 Tallis Street. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and bands, standing five storeys tall. The building features a higher corner tower topped with an octagonal slate roof, a lantern cupola, and a flagstaff. The ground floor has a blue brick plinth and banded brick piers with stone capitals depicting shells, sea gods, and monsters. Above this, there is a plain stone frieze and cornice, with corbels supporting semi-octagonal brick pilasters between the windows on the first, second, and third floors. The windows are mullion and transom types, including recessed oriels. Continuous stone bands mark the cills and heads of the windows, with moulded brick panels below the second and third floor windows. The building is adorned with a strapwork frieze and cornice, leading to a simpler attic storey with a brick parapet and stone coping. Brick pilasters rise to terminate in stone finials, and the roof is slated with dormer windows.