44-52, Commercial Street

44-52 Commercial Street is a warehouse built around 1868, with an unknown architect. It features yellow brick construction and extensive moulded stone dressings. The building has a twenty-bay façade that rises four storeys high, including four loading bays, and a two-bay return to Wentworth Street. The ground floor has a regular arcade with arched openings supported by chamfered square capitals. The first and second floors have rectangular window openings with keystones and gauged window arches set within hood moulds, while the third floor features arched windows with keystones. There are continuous plat bands at the second and third floor levels, and a heavy moulded cornice at the parapet. The northernmost two loading bays still have cast iron cranes with circle enriched spandrels. Most of the original sash windows remain in place, and the interior retains cast iron columns. This building is a well-preserved example of mid-Victorian commercial architecture, with its first occupants recorded in directories from 1869.