53, Church Street

No. 53 Church Street is a shop premises dating from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of stucco and features plain pilaster quoins, architraves, sill brackets, and a moulded eaves cornice. It has a grouted scantle slate hipped roof at the front and an asbestos slate roof at the rear, along with cast-iron ogee gutters and painted rubble at the back. The building has a double-depth plan that projects into the street at the front. It is two storeys high and has a three-window, three-bay range. The original windows are 16-pane hornless sashes. The ground floor features a full-width moulded entablature that returns at the ends, supported by a tetrastyle Doric arrangement with fluted columns, with the central columns placed closer together. There is a 20th-century shop front infill between the columns. At the rear, there is a round-arched stair window, and the other windows are sashes with margin panes. The interior has not been inspected. This building is a notable example of an early 19th-century ground floor shop front designed in the Greek Revival style, similar to the Custom House on Arwenack Street.