50 High Street And 1 Orr Square

James Steel Maitland, dated 1934. 3-storey (2-storey to rear), piend-roofed office building on steeply sloping site at corner of High Street and Orr Square, with shops at ground, concave curve at corner filled with 2-storey canted window, and horizontal glazing to front and side elevations. Polished sandstone ashlar to principal facades; roughcast rendered brick to Orr square. Glazed shop fronts at ground to High Street with bracketed cornice above fascia that projects to bowed canopy at corner; bands of horizontal windows to 1st and 2nd floor; eaves course; blocking course with projecting copes and raised at corner to form parapet.

FURTHER DETAILS: principal elevation to corner has bowed shop window with original glazing stepped up in 3 sections to follow rising ground; recessed concave section rising through 2 upper floors and terminating in raised parapet with monogram panel; 2-storey metal-framed canted windows. 2 shop fronts retaining some original fabric to High Street elevation; horizontal window bands to first and 2nd floors with 1934 date stone between them. Ashlar façade continues for 1 bay to Orr square elevation with blocked shop window at ground and 2 windows above; 2-bay rendered section beyond with horizontal window bands to left and lower section to right with segmental arch at ground leading to rear courtyard and small window over.

4- and 8-pane lying-pane glazing in metal-framed windows. Rendered stacks with red clay cans. Welsh slate roof.