Stock Exchange Buildings

Offices, built in 1904 and designed by WR Saunders, are constructed from limestone ashlar with a roof that is not visible. The building has a double-depth plan and is in the Edwardian Baroque style. It is three storeys high, with a ten-window range, and is divided into two sections, canted in the middle. The window arrangement is 1:3:1 to the left and 1:2:2 to the right, with a doorway on the left-hand side. The facade is articulated by banded Ionic pilasters, featuring swag details, fluted ground-floor necks, foliate first-floor caps, and blocked details on the second floor. Cornices project over the pilasters, with egg-and-dart detailing on the ground floor and modillions and a parapet on the second. The semicircular-arched ground-floor openings have Gibbs reveals, fluted necks, small rosettes above, Gibbs blocks to the arches, and crossed branches within the spandrels. The doorway is flanked by matching paired attached columns, surmounted by an iron fanlight and a 14-panel door. The plate-glass windows are set back from weathered cills. First-floor openings have cills with panels beneath, eared and shouldered architraves with foliate panels in the lintels, and semicircular-arched egg-and-dart hoods with carved panels. Second-floor windows have similar architraves, with raised blocks projecting to the pilasters. Horned plate-glass sashes are fitted throughout. The outer pilasters of the right-hand section feature paired consoles above. The rear elevations have moulded architraves to the windows. The interior features a hall and a central, lateral, open dogleg staircase with moulded square balusters and larger newels. Doorways are characterised by pulvinated friezes, dentil pediments, panelled reveals, and 4-panel doors.