Former Rising Sun Temperance Tavern

The property is a former temperance tavern, dated 1877, with additions and alterations made in 1885. It was designed by Alfred Waterhouse for St Giles Parish Council, at the instigation of Mrs Waterhouse. The building is constructed of grey brick in English bond, with red brick quoins, arches, bands, and decorative features. It has an ashlar plinth band, sills, lintels, and bands which clasp rainwater pipes. The rear is of red brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles, with crested ridge tiles, and there are brick stacks at the left end of the building and to the ridge of the rear wing.

The building is two storeys with an attic, with four bays at the front, and a two-storey, two-bay wing to the rear right. Most of the windows have wooden mullions and transoms, stone sills and lintels, and brick relieving arches. The windows on the left return and rear have leaded upper lights with coloured glass. The front entrance has a step leading up to a door of nine raised and fielded panels, an overlight, and a hollow-moulded surround. The entrance and ground-floor windows are all segmental arched below a continuous hoodmould with vertical glazing bars (the lower parts of some windows are boarded up). There is a projecting double-sided metal tavern sign, with some letters missing. The first floor has three-light windows with decorative brickwork to the tympana. Brick modillions are present to the eaves. The attic has two-light windows rising through the eaves, with a dated, pilastered gable and stepped, logged eaves; the outer windows below finialled hipped roofs.

The left return has two bays, with two-light windows, except for the one-light attic windows which flank a corbelled external stack. Corbelled attic pilasters support stepped, logged eaves. The rear has two first-floor windows of two and three lights; one attic window. The wing return has a door with paired one-light windows to the left, and a three-light window over. The interior is reported to retain the original stair, fireplaces, and some ceiling cornices.