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

Basil Spence and Partners, 1948-51 (Basil Spence, partner-in-charge; Hardie Glover, job architect; Andrew Renton, designer; Bruce Robertson, partner in charge; Sarah McCosh; Bill Rowarth; James Beveridge, Richard Cassidy). 2 and 3 storeys, stepped L-plan housing with Modernist and vernacular references; part of a municipal housing development set around drying green near harbour; land falling away to NE revealing store to ground floor of E elevation. Cavity brick construction, predominantly painted harl with red sandstone random rubble to gables and recessed bays of N and S Elevation. Eaves course to gables. Concrete balconies, some lintels, projecting narrow cills, projecting surrounds to balcony openings and predominantly stepped cantilevered canopies to entrance doors; iron balustrades. Predominantly timber panelled, single entrance door with half glazed sidelight; single entrance door to No. 15D. Some raised ground and 1st floor windows in architraves. Random rubble forestairs with concrete treads.

N (VICTORIA STREET) ELEVATION: 7 bays (central 5 bays advanced) adjoined to 3-storey gable (Writer's Court) at left. Outer right bay faced with red sandstone random rubble. Entrance doors to outer bays, and outer left bay and right of centre of advanced section; some with balcony above; balcony at 1st floor of left return wall and W gable elevation. Random rubble section separating windows to left of centre at ground

E (WRITER'S COURT) ELEVATION: 3 bays, advanced 2 bays to right in red sandstone random rubble; door to outer left with balcony above.

Variety of replacement uPVC glazing and doors. Pantile pitched roofs; harled and ridge stacks, with circular clay cans.

INTERIORS (partially seen 2010): simple plan-forms of flats and maisonettes generally intact; fisherman stores to ground floor of E elevation.

BOUNDARY WALLS: red sandstone random rubble with concrete copes, stepped as ground falls away.