32 Evan Street

This is a two-storey building with an attic, built in 1936, likely by Colonel Tawse and Messrs Hall. It was originally a Co-operative building and stands alongside the separately listed Carron Restaurant on Cameron Street. The building is in the Art Deco style.

The exterior is characterized by fine decorative top lights, coloured glass medallions, and original shop doors with brass door furniture. The shop fronts are made of granite ashlar, with darker ashlar forming crenellated, crowstepped features on the first-floor bays. The side of the building is finished with harl (rough cast) and coursed rubble. Notable features include oversized, stylized keystones and capitals.

The north (principal) elevation has three single-storey bays towards the right. The rightmost bay features a stepped, moulded shop front with a large keystone and a deep-set entrance door, margined glazing, and an original handle. Flanking the door are fixed display windows, and a three-part top light with a coloured glass medallion depicting a grocery basket. To the left are two smaller shops, with similar deep-set outer doors, inner display windows, and a dividing pillar. One shop displays a coloured glass medallion depicting a cow’s head, and the other a wheatsheaf. Further to the left is a broader shop with a two-part fixed display window, a boarded top light, and a doorway with a metal roller shutter leading to a deeply recessed door. The floor inside this shop is mosaic-tiled, featuring a monogrammed ‘NCSL’. The first floor has three wide, tripartite windows and a four-light window in the outer left angle. A later, out-of-character, flat-roofed dormer is situated on the left.

The east (Ann Street) elevation features a shop front with a two-part fixed display window and a large keystone to the right, two doors to the left, and asymmetrical fenestration on the first floor. A small roundheaded window is set into the gablehead.

The original Art Deco glazing, combining horizontal patterning with Deco symbols in metal windows, remains in the shop fronts, although some is obscured by modern fascias. Modern glazing is present above ground floor level. Grey slates cover the roof, and the single-storey bays have a piended roof with a large horizontal rooflight to the west. Coped ashlar gablehead stacks with cans are also present.

The interiors are modern.