Numbers 353-355 (Odd) And Attached Railings

Offices, originally an institutional building, were constructed in 1883, likely by the office of Arthur Blomfield, with G S Williams acting as the builder. The upper floors are faced with finely-cut, rubbed red brick, while the front features a red sandstone oriel window and dressings. The ground floor is of sandstone, with polished marble columns, antae, and dressings. The building has a tile-hung gabled roof with cresting along the ridge, and intersecting gabled dormers, with exposed brick stacks to the left side.

The design is in the Gothic Revival style. The building is three storeys high with a basement and attic, and has a five-window range, arranged as 1:3:1. The windows decrease in height upwards. The front slightly curves, and a gabled three-bay oriel window projects from the central bay at the first floor level, extending into the attic. Outer bays feature single sashes. A small dated shield reading '1883' is flanked by low-relief foliate carving on the corbel table.

The first floor features pointed archivolted arches over plain, stone-transomed sashes with glazed lunette windows above. Decorative, low-relief carving is present on the surfaces between the arch springs of these lunette windows in the oriel. A moulded stone cornice sits above the first floor. Several courses of rubbed bricks indicate a division between the first and second floors. The second floor incorporates a moulded stone sill band beneath stylized, flat-arched, horned 1/1 sashes; the oriel bay sashes include archivolts and concave circular motifs in their lunettes. A heavily moulded stone cornice is above the second floor. The outer bays of the attic have pierced-stone parapets with stone coping. The central part features a gabled attic oriel articulated by end piers with small sphere tops, with a stone wall containing blind lancet-arched niches continuing in line with the parapets. Above this is a moulded sill band to three 1/1 stylized, flat-arched sashes, surmounted by a cornice. Low-relief Gothic-style carving is found within the peak of the gable, topped by a Gothic-style finial and stone coping.

The ground floor has three pointed archways set in a deep recess, with arches supported by engaged columns to the centre and antae to the ends, all featuring crocket capitals. Low-relief carving in a rich Gothic pattern decorates the wall surface between the archivolts. The central opening contains a five-panelled, raised-and-fielded double door, a moulded wood transom, and a lunette window with pierced, curvilinear wrought-ironwork. Flanking sashes have fixed glazing and stone sills over blind, segmental-arched basement openings with wrought-iron grilles. An elaborate moulded stone cornice extends from the corbel table of the oriel window.