Artillery House

Artillery House is an office block dating from 1928, designed by Maurice Webb. It was constructed with a steel frame and faced in cream faience, exhibiting a modernistic style influenced by "Hollywood Egyptian" aesthetics. The building is seven storeys high, with an attic, and seven bays wide. The design features five bays of four windows each, flanked by stair towers of one window. Office entrances are located within the front of the flanking towers, each featuring semicircular arched doorways. The ground floor currently accommodates five mid-20th century shop fronts. Above the doorways are ceramic miniature howitzers, referencing the building's name, with strip windows illuminating the stairs above. The five central bays have recessed, metal-framed casement windows positioned between tapered, streamlined buttresses. A projecting cornice is supported by paired brackets, and the attic is set back. The building has seen very few alterations since its construction.