16 And 18 Methven Street

Peter Roy Jackson, dated 1894. 3-storey and attic 4- x 4-bay corner tenement with circa 1900 4-storey and attic single bay to far right at High Street. Restaurant to ground, situated on prominent corner site with octagonal corner dormer surmounted by ogee-roofed copper drum. Squared and coursed red sandstone. Cornice to ground, cill course, cornice. Raised, moulded architraves. Round-arched arcaded window openings to ground with pilaster stone mullions and decorative panelled aprons to ground. Pedimented dormer with tripartite window to High Street (S).

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf timber entrance door to canted corner with semi-circular fanlight, set in round-arched entrance doorway with consoled broken pediment above. Octagonal dormer with Doric-columned pilaster mullions, dentilled cornice.

Bay to far right at High Street has recessed shallow 4-light bay windows with tall Dutch-style gable to attic flanked by pinnacles. Decorative carved foliage panels to 2nd floor apron.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows, plate glass to ground. Small pane timber casement windows to later single bay to High Street. Grey slates. Large, scrolled wallhead stacks.

INTERIOR: (partially seen, 2009). Ground floor comprehensively modernised. Tenement stair with decorative iron balusters and timber handrail.