3, Commercial Road

No. 3 Commercial Road is a shop and flats built around 1850, with an earlier building at the rear and 20th-century alterations. The structure is made of brick with an ashlar front and has a slate roof. It is a double-depth block featuring separate entrances for the dwelling and accommodation at the rear, located on the left-hand and right-hand sides of the front.

The building stands three storeys high and is designed in the Italianate style. The front has two bays, with a narrow recessed bay on the left. There is a 20th-century shop front with a doorway to the right. Above the shop, there is a string course at the first-floor sill level and a crowning entablature with a blocking course. On the first floor, there are two horned sash windows with single vertical glazing bars, set in openings with moulded architraves, entablatures, and projecting sills. The second floor features similar but shorter sashes in openings with moulded eared architraves and projecting sills.

The entrance doorway in the narrow recessed bay is framed by plain stone jambs and impost blocks, with a moulded head between the imposts. Above the doorway is a semicircular fanlight with a moulded stone archivolt. Each upper floor of the recessed bay has a narrow semicircular arched sash in a plain opening with a projecting sill. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its significance as part of the streetscape, being contemporary and architecturally consistent with other ashlar-faced properties on Commercial Road.