47, Corn Street

No. 47 Corn Street is an office building constructed in 1878, designed by James Weir. It features a limestone ashlar façade and has an L-shaped double-depth plan in the Italian palazzo style. The building stands four storeys tall with a basement and has a five-window range. It occupies a corner site, which includes a splayed one-window corner and an eleven-window right-hand return.

Architectural details include cornices at each floor that project forward to attached columns, with paired columns on the corner and left-hand end. The ground floor has a tall plinth supporting a Tuscan arcade with aedicules and paired columns at each end. The first floor showcases Corinthian columns, while the second floor has panelled pilaster jambs, and the third floor features panelled jambs with banded ends and foliate capitals, topped by a cornice, parapet, and blocking course.

The corner of the building has a large doorway framed by attached columns on pedestals, leading to a segmental pediment and a keyed semicircular arch with rope moulding, featuring 20th-century doors and a fanlight. Ground-floor windows are semicircular-arched with fluted keys and pilaster jambs above panelled aprons, while the first-floor windows have architraves with pediments, including a tripartite window on the corner and left-hand side with Corinthian mullions. The second-floor windows are segmental-arched, with a Venetian window at the left-hand end, and the third floor has paired semicircular-arched windows with capitals, moulded archivolts, and keys, also featuring a Venetian window on the left.

The right-hand return mirrors the front elevation, consisting of three storeys with five windows. It includes a semicircular-arched doorway located six bays from the corner beneath a Venetian window. The interior has been extensively remodelled, with the side entrance leading to a lobby of three bays defined by Corinthian pilasters on panelled plinths. An oval open stone winder stair, illuminated from above, features ornate cast-iron balusters. The lower side elevation was designed to provide light to the Commercial Rooms located behind.