2 and 4, Old Street

Nos. 2 and 4 Old Street is a workshop or warehouse built between 1872 and 1875 for Thomas Mabe, a colour merchant. The building is constructed of white brick, with yellow brick and terracotta dressings, and features a roof that is obscured by a parapet. It stands four storeys high and has a four-window range facing Old Street.

The Old Street elevation consists of four bays, which are flanked by brick piers that rise to a moulded segmental-pointed arch with a keystone above the fourth floor. The window openings are identical in design across the front and are separated by slim metal columns with foliage capitals, each topped with a segmental-pointed arch. On the ground floor, the first and third bays from the left contain doors, while the other bays have original metal shutters fitted between the window arches and frames. Above the ground floor windows, there is terracotta decoration in a honeycomb pattern, set beneath a segmental-pointed arch made of gauged yellow brick. The first-floor windows feature lozenge-patterned floral decoration in terracotta, and above the second floor is a band of guilloche ornament in terracotta. The building is topped with a machicolated parapet.

The elevation facing Sycamore Street has three bays, with white brick piers framing segmental-arched recessed panels of yellow brick, which contain segmental-arched windows.