Former Oldfield's Machine Tools Warehouse, 15 Abercorn Street

Dated 1924. 2-storey, 9-bay gabled red brick warehouse with slightly lower, 3-bay forward-facing gabled section adjoining to S. Red brick (probably on steel or iron frame) with some red sandstone dressings. Base course; ground floor red sandstone cill course, continuing as string course on smaller building; upper floor slightly corbelled-out; brick eaves course. 9 bays to main part of building divided by plain brick pilasters, corbelled out at upper floor; tall, segmental-arched windows to ground; small segmental-arched windows to upper floor with projecting sandstone eaves; corbelled brick skewputts.

FURTHER DETAILS: principal elevation to E, facing road: 2-leaf timber-boarded entrance door across two left-hand bays; 6 ground floor windows to central bays; upper floor windows in alternate bays. Similar fenestration to W (facing river). 3-bay gable to N with tall windows at ground and oculus with raised margin to gable apex. 3-bay gable to E elevation of lower block: later entrance doors in central segmental-arched architrave with polychrome voussoirs and large, prominent keystone all within shallow rectangular recess; oculus window with raised tabbed margin above to gable apex; terracotta panels flanking entrance to each side inscribed 'G.C.O.' and '1924'; slightly lower rectangular recesses to outer bays with 2 small windows to each side breaking through string course. 4 pilastered bays to S elevation with segmental-arched windows.

Predominantly metal-framed fixed lights; tilting hopper windows to upper floor. Ashlar-coped skews. Welsh slate roof. 3 iron vents with conical tops to roof ridge; 2 vents to lower building no longer have conical tops.