Nos 30-40 Including Railings To Front

Nos. 30-40 Lowther Street, including the railings to the front, is a terrace of seven houses that have been converted into shops and offices, with some storage space above. Built in the late 1820s or 1830s, the terrace has undergone some alterations over the years. The exterior features Flemish bond brickwork, partly with light headers, set on a calciferous sandstone plinth, with all dressings made from this material. The building displays V-jointed quoins, sill bands, and an eaves cornice, topped with a graduated greenslate roof that is hipped at the corner, and original shared ridge brick chimney stacks.

The terrace is three storeys high, with two bays for each house, and a two-bay return on Lonsdale Street. No. 30 has been unified as one office with No. 1 Lonsdale Street. The central three houses and the corner houses retain their cellar voids, which are railed with 19th and 20th-century iron railings, and feature stone steps leading to the cellar doors. The central three houses also maintain their right panelled doors and patterned overlights within Tuscan doorcases that have wreathed friezes, accessed by steps. Nos. 32 and 40 have filled voids and 20th-century ground floor shop fronts. No. 30 includes a 1920s angled doorway beneath a carved coat of commercial arms and a window insertion. The upper floor windows are sashes, some with glazing bars and some casements, all set within painted stone architraves, along with smaller attic windows.

Inside, some of the properties retain panelled doors in wooden architraves and panelled internal shutters, with moulded plaster ceiling cornices found in some principal rooms. The design of these houses bears similarities to those in The Crescent, which were also built in the 1820s.