1, John Street

No. 1 John Street is a commercial building dating from around 1840, with a shopfront added by the Treasury Bank in 1858. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a narrow elevation in the Italianate style. The building stands four storeys high and has a single bay with a slight break in the centre that contains fenestration.

The first and second floors are flanked by giant pilasters, which support full-height round-headed panels. The consoles above these pilasters extend up into the third floor, with a second floor lintel and a panelled cornice that breaks forward over the centre. A crowning cornice is raised in a segmental pediment above the centre break. The upper floors feature tripled windows, with the first floor windows being narrow and tall, marginally glazed, and surrounded by moulded surrounds. Each of these windows has consoles above and long console brackets supporting the cornice overhead. The second floor's tripled window is adorned with Roman Ionic pilasters and consoles at the heads, which extend into a frieze panelled apron with consoles rising from the first floor window's cornice. The third floor has a tripled segmental pediment.

The shopfront includes flanking glazed and panelled doors with bold radial glazed semicircular fanlights and consoles beside the doorheads. A window between the doors features five round-arched lights with colonnette mullions, a frieze, and pendant finialed brackets supporting the cornice above. There are deep stacks on both the left and right sides, with the right stack raised to the level of the adjacent attic storey. The blind return on the single bay to Quiet Street has similar flanking pilasters and details, with a single bay display window and one blind bay, and the entablature returns full width. This building showcases a rich and carefully considered design, making it an important feature on this corner site. The interior has not been inspected.