Albion Chambers and attached railings and gate

Albion Chambers is a group of offices with shops, built in 1833. The building is constructed of brick with limestone dressings, stuccoed courtyard blocks, brick ridge stacks, and hipped pantile roofs.

The plan consists of four double-depth blocks arranged symmetrically to create a T-shaped courtyard. The Small Street elevation is four storeys and five bays wide, featuring a cornice and ashlar parapet in a Greek Revival style. The ground-floor shop fronts include an archway leading to a through passage. This archway has a moulded archivolt with outer palmettes, a shell-like fanlight panel with an acroterion above the lintel, and panelled jambs, repeated at the ends of the shop fronts with plate-glass windows. Upper-floor windows are plate-glass sashes within architraves, which are eared and battered with cornices and ashlar aprons on the first floor, a central eared square window on the first floor, and battered cornices on the second floor. The left return at ground floor is built of random limestone ashlar, mirroring the neighbouring former Assizes, and was rebuilt between 1865 and 1870 to enclose a space in front of it.

The courtyard features matching blocks facing across the sides and one across the end, with a through passage to Broad Street. The office blocks are three storeys high, arranged in five-window ranges, each with a coped parapet. The side pairs have eared, battered architraves and six-panelled doors; the eastern end features an eared, segmental-arched architrave with a large keystone to the passage. Smaller end windows have raised surrounds, with curved wrought-iron brackets supporting a lamp over the doorway, and a clock over the first-floor window set within an ornate square panel. The windows are eight-over-eight-pane sashes with fine bars, some of which have been replaced with horned and plate-glass sashes.

The interior of the Small Street block includes an entrance in the right-hand side of the passage. Notable features are a stone cantilevered oval open-well winder stair with wrought-iron railings, stone floors laid on iron I-section beams, a second-floor fire surround with panelled jambs and mantle to roundels, and brick groin vaults in the basement. The two side blocks contain similar open dogleg stairs; the eastern block has an open-well stair above the western entrance, and panelled reveals to six-panelled doors.

Attached to the north end of the courtyard are cast-iron spear-headed railings and a gate with palmette finials to the basement steps.