8 Writer's C0Ourt Including Boundary Walls, 15D Victoria Street, 15C, 15B, 15A

8 Writer's Court, including boundary walls, is a housing development designed by Basil Spence and Partners between 1948 and 1951. It features 2 and 3 storey stepped L-plan houses that blend Modernist and vernacular styles. The development is part of a municipal housing project situated around a drying green near the harbour, with the land sloping down to the northeast, revealing a store at the ground floor of the east elevation.

The buildings are constructed from cavity brick, primarily finished with painted harl, and feature red sandstone random rubble on the gables and recessed bays of the north and south elevations. The gables have an eaves course, and there are concrete balconies, some lintels, projecting narrow cills, and projecting surrounds around the balcony openings, along with predominantly stepped cantilevered canopies above the entrance doors, which have iron balustrades. The entrance doors are mostly timber panelled, with a single entrance door to No. 15D having a half-glazed sidelight. Some windows on the raised ground and first floors are framed with architraves, and there are random rubble forestairs with concrete treads.

The north elevation facing Victoria Street has seven bays, with the central five bays advanced and connected to a three-storey gable at the left. The outer right bay is faced with red sandstone random rubble. Entrance doors are located in the outer bays, with some having balconies above. There is also a balcony at the first floor of the left return wall and the west gable elevation. A random rubble section separates the windows to the left of centre at ground level.

The east elevation, known as Writer's Court, has three bays, with the two right bays advanced in red sandstone random rubble, and a door to the outer left with a balcony above.

The development features a variety of replacement uPVC glazing and doors, with pantile pitched roofs and harled ridge stacks that have circular clay cans.

Internally, the simple plan forms of the flats and maisonettes are generally intact, with fisherman stores located on the ground floor of the east elevation.

The boundary walls are made of red sandstone random rubble topped with concrete copes, and they step down as the ground falls away.