1-31, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET (See details for further address information)

Queen Victoria Street comprises a circa 1894 commercial street with returns to Broad Street and Friar Street, including numbers 148 and 149 Friar Street and numbers 24 to 28 and 35 to 37 on Broad Street. The building is probably by Joseph Morris and is designed in Dutch gabled free Baroque style.

The main structure stands 3½ storeys tall, constructed in yellow brick and terracotta with dividing Ionic pilasters and a dentil cornice. The dormers feature pilasters and broken pediments above them. An elongated pattern of shallow bays runs across the first and second floors in the sequence 4:2:1:1:1:1:3. The bays have mullion and transom windows, while the remaining windows are sashes with architraves, including pediments on the first floor. Modern shopfronts have been installed, retaining the cornice to the fascia and scroll brackets to the pilasters, though only one shop retains a prewar shopfront.

Large returns extend to Broad Street. The eastern return at number 28 Broad Street is supported by number 26 (dated 1894, constructed in grey brick with red terracotta dressings) and by number 24 (an early 20th-century bank featuring a large shaped pediment doorway on the corner to Cross Street, built in red brick with stone dressings and stone fret patterns to the gables).