50 High Street And 1 Orr Square

50 High Street and 1 Orr Square is a 3-storey office building, with 2 storeys at the rear, designed by James Steel Maitland and completed in 1934. It is situated on a steeply sloping site at the corner of High Street and Orr Square. The building features shops on the ground floor and has a distinctive concave curve at the corner, which is filled with a 2-storey canted window and horizontal glazing on the front and side elevations. The principal facades are made of polished sandstone ashlar, while the Orr Square side is finished with roughcast rendered brick.

The ground floor shop fronts on High Street have glazed displays topped with a bracketed cornice that projects to a bowed canopy at the corner. The upper floors are characterized by bands of horizontal windows, an eaves course, and a blocking course with projecting copes that rise at the corner to form a parapet.

Notable features include the principal elevation at the corner, which has a bowed shop window with original glazing that steps up in three sections to follow the rising ground. There is a recessed concave section that rises through the two upper floors, ending in a raised parapet with a monogram panel. The building also has 2-storey metal-framed canted windows. The High Street elevation retains some original fabric in its shop fronts, and there is a 1934 date stone between the horizontal window bands on the first and second floors. The ashlar façade extends for one bay along the Orr Square elevation, where there is a blocked shop window at ground level and two windows above. A 2-bay rendered section follows, featuring horizontal window bands to the left and a lower section to the right, which has a segmental arch at ground level leading to a rear courtyard and a small window above.

The windows have 4- and 8-pane lying-pane glazing in metal frames. The building has rendered stacks with red clay cans and a roof covered with Welsh slate.