Hanover House

Hanover House is a former factory, now used as offices, built around 1889 for Day and Martin, blacking manufacturers. The building is constructed of yellow brick with stucco dressings and features a curved corrugated-iron roof that is obscured from view.

The exterior presents a unified Classical design, standing four storeys tall with a basement and a full attic at the centre. The central section has five bays, while the end sections have one bay each. The ground floor is articulated by flat, giant pilasters with decorative capitals that support an entablature featuring a frieze and cornice. Above this, there is a balustraded parapet, except for the central three-bay section, which projects further and is topped with a pediment over four fluted, giant, modified Ionic columns. The attic storey above this section includes pilasters and a central segmental pediment with acroteria.

The ground floor has banded rusticated stucco with a cornice. The main openings are round- or segmental-arched with voussoirs, except for the outer bays of the central feature, which have shouldered, battered architraves and pediments. The intermediate sections feature wide, flat-headed windows with pilasters and an entablature. The first-floor windows are plain and sit under recessed stucco panels. The second-floor windows are round-headed with stucco archivolts, except for those in the end sections and the outer bays of the central section, which are square-headed with architraves, console bracketed cornices, and pediments. The third-floor windows have gauged, flat brick arches with bracketed stucco sills. All the windows on the first, second, and third floors are sashes with glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.