1-9, New Bond Street

Shops with offices above were built between 1805 and 1820, with partial demolition and rebuilding around 1983. The original design is attributed to John Palmer, City Architect, with street elevations dating from 1801 and approved in 1803, and the later reconstruction was undertaken by Alec French and Partners. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a roof not visible from the street. It occupies a long block on a slightly rising level, with a curved corner connecting to Northgate Street.

The exterior is three storeys high with a full-height attic, featuring twenty-four bays, divided as one-by-one facing Northgate Street, followed by a curved section of six bays, then six, four, and finally six bays, with the last four and six bays stepped upwards. A Tuscan colonnade of eleven columns forms the curved corner, with a covered footway and plate glass shop windows behind. Not all of the design aligns with Palmer's original elevations. Shops at numbers 6 and 7 have shopfronts dating from 1983 in a Regency style: number 6 designed by J. Hepworth & Son Ltd, and number 7 by J. Deacon, architect, incorporating plate glass windows within a timber-pilastered frame. Numbers 8 and 9 feature a shopfront from around 1900, with a pedimented entrance and plate glass windows framed by Ionic half-columns. The building was formerly the site of a Red House Bakery, with a shop designed by AJ Taylor around 1903, though the current shopfront is a reproduction from around 1983. Upper floor windows are reproduction sashes, with six panes per sash on the first floor, eight panes per sash on the second floor, and eight panes per sash in the attic. Windows at higher levels, and the cornices at the second floor and parapet levels, are stepped upwards. The parapet is also stepped, and the roof is hidden, with ashlar stacks and decorative pots on numbers 5, 7, 8, and 9.

The interiors have been entirely rebuilt behind the original facade, with a courtyard dating from around 1980. Historically, the building was part of Palmer’s modernization of the Georgian city’s retail district, involving a sweeping redevelopment scheme. It remains on the heritage list as an important example of neoclassical street architecture. The only part of the original building still visible is the nine-bay facade of numbers 7-9.