5, SOUTHGATE PLACE (See details for further address information)

This is an 1881 corner shop and dwelling, located on a corner site at Southgate Place. The building is constructed with rusticated dressed granite piers to the ground floor, and stucco to the rest of the facade, resting on a masonry base. First-floor pilasters are linked by carved impost strings and paired moulded hoods. There are panels between the windows, a moulded sill string to the second floor, and paired window hoods with keyblocks above. The hipped roof is covered with Delabole slate, with modillion eaves cornices, pierced crested clay ridge tiles and a brick stack at the rear, along with two stuccoed stacks topped with a moulded entablature. The building plan is L-shaped, with a splayed corner. It is built in an Italianate style, with a one-window range facing Southgate Place, and a four-window range to the Exeter Street return. Upper floors feature paired round arches over original two-pane horned sashes. Ornamentation includes concentric trefoils to the corner and a quatrefoil with the date, “1881”. The ground floor has two shop fronts, likely original, with round-arched lights over doorways and windows. The corner shop has a four-light front and a doorway to the splayed corner. There’s a house doorway to the left of the corner shop, a one-window bay between the shops, a two-light shop front to Exeter Street, and a carriage entrance to its right. A rear wing is slate-hung and contains a tall early 19th-century round-headed stair sash and 12-pane sashes. The interior remains uninspected.