123 George Street

Brown and Watt, 1899. Symmetrical 4-storey and attic, 5-bay commercial and residential building with distinctive wallhead stack and flanking crow-step gables at attic level. Tripartite openings to upper floors with shops to ground. Grey granite ashlar to principal (east) elevation; squared and coursed rubble elsewhere.

EAST ELEVATION: Banded coursing at 1st floor and moulded eaves course. Ground floor pilasters rising to projecting pedimented and consoled stops between ground and 1st floor linking shopfront fascias. Shallow canted window bays at 1st and 2nd floors with narrow side-lights and balustraded balconies above. Shallow, corbelled-out pilasters at 3rd floor. Pair of tall square wallhead stacks to centre bay with round-arched linking section; flanked by substantial shouldered crowstepped gables at outer bays; recessed round-arched openings with oculi above and square capped finials to apices. Dormer windows to 2nd and 4th bays set within slated mansarded roof.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows with astragalled upper part. Some non-traditional replacement glazing throughout principal (east) elevation although original glazing pattern prevails. Grey slate. Broad gable stacks to north and south elevations. Clay chimney cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.