123 George Street

123 George Street is a commercial and residential building designed by Brown and Watt in 1899. It is a symmetrical four-storey structure with an attic, featuring five bays and notable architectural elements such as a wallhead stack and crow-step gables at the attic level. The upper floors have tripartite openings, while the ground floor accommodates shops. The principal (east) elevation is finished in grey granite ashlar, with squared and coursed rubble used elsewhere.

On the east elevation, there is banded coursing at the first floor and a moulded eaves course. The ground floor features pilasters that rise to a projecting pediment with consoled stops linking the shopfront fascias between the ground and first floors. Shallow canted window bays are present at the first and second floors, each with narrow side-lights and balustraded balconies above. The third floor has shallow, corbelled-out pilasters. The centre bay includes a pair of tall square wallhead stacks connected by a round-arched section, flanked by substantial crow-stepped gables on the outer bays. Recessed round-arched openings with oculi above and square capped finials adorn the gables. Dormer windows are located in the second and fourth bays, set within a slated mansarded roof.

The building predominantly features timber sash and case windows with astragalled upper parts. Some non-traditional replacement glazing is present throughout the principal elevation, although the original glazing pattern remains dominant. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are broad gable stacks on the north and south elevations, along with clay chimney cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.