3 And 5, St John Street

Nos. 3 and 5 St John Street is a butcher's shop and offices, rebuilt by W. Harris in 1897, as indicated by the date in the pediment, which features a low-relief carving of a boar. The building is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and has a roof made of Welsh slate. It stands five storeys tall over a basement and has a four-window range on both the south and east sides, with a chamfered corner.

The ground floor includes an office entrance for no. 5 on St John Street, followed by two window bays for the shop, a corner entrance, and one more window bay to the south, leading to the shop front for no. 3. The piers between the sections have bases made of pink polished granite, with pilasters that support narrow entablatures, all designed in a style influenced by Art Nouveau. The ground floor features a fascia and cornice, along with a well-designed original doorcase for the office and shop entrance of no. 5, which includes panelled doors.

The upper windows are flat-arched with simply moulded stone architraves. The south front is more elaborately treated, featuring stone bands between the windows, corbelled balconies on the third floor, a corbelled cornice above, and a flush embattled parapet with scrolled ends, also influenced by Art Nouveau. The fourth floor has two windows flanked by cartouches, one of which bears the initials WH, and the gable is adorned with a boar panel and finials. The chamfered corner is blank on the first and second floors but is designed to resemble a massive chimneystack on the upper floors, with thin ribs of angled brickwork that culminate in delicate stone ornament.

The front facing St John Street has similar windows on all floors, a storey band above the second floor, a corbelled cornice, and a parapet that is no longer flush, along with a hipped roof dormer at the back.