Nos 17-22 Inclusive, With Railed Areas

Nos. 17-22 form a terrace with a public house, built in 1864 and altered around 1900. The building is constructed of stock brick, partly rendered, with a felt roof. The south (seaward) elevation features a rusticated base, string courses, quoins, and a cornice extending to a hipped roof with four stacks. The top floor has ten cross-windows with rendered jambs. Five canted bays of three storeys and basement are separated by three sash windows with cornices and brackets, and a continuous canted verandah on the first floor with pierced piers and bowed acanthus rails. A half-glazed door is located to the left with a 20th-century surround and canopy. Two panelled doors with rectangular fanlights and a cornice resting on consoles are centrally positioned, leading to six moulded steps and simple basement rails. An identical single doorway is on the right.

The west elevation is four storeys high with an attic. It has a rusticated ground floor, moulded string courses on each floor, quoins, a rendered band beneath the cornice, and a hipped roof with stacks to the left and centre rear. A pedimented dormer with moulded oval panels is centrally located on the right. The ten-bay front is spaced in groups of three bays, three wider bays, and four bays, reflecting original cartilage divisions. Cross-windows are present on the top two floors, except for a sash window below the pedimented dormer in the fifth bay from the right. The three leftmost windows on the second floor have cornices, while the other seven have bracketted pediments. Full-height sashes are on the first floor, with rendered surrounds and bowed acanthus balconies; the left end three bays feature a tented verandah with cast iron valancing, piers, and rails.

Around 1900, the ground floor was altered to include shop fronts, turning the corner to the south elevation with plate glass windows and top lights in three units, each with central double-glazed doors. The main doors to the upper floors are centrally located to the right (below the pedimented dormer), featuring double panelled doors with rectangular fanlights which are painted with the name "Paragon Mansions." A heavy cornice rests on brackets. Originally built in 1864, the main corner block was used throughout the 19th century as Mr. and Mrs. Rose’s Boarding House, the subject of a sketch by Vincent Van Gogh in 1876. Later alterations accommodated shops and the Paragon Corner House restaurant, which is now a public house and nightclub.