Including The Exchange Bar, 1 Silver Street And 9 Kirkstile

This late 19th century building is a three-storey corner block that houses a public house on the ground floor and tenement apartments above. It features two bays facing Kirkstile and four bays along Silver Street, with a slightly recessed, bowed bay at the corner. The exterior is constructed from tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone, with polished ashlar dressings and painted ashlar at the ground level. The rear includes some roughly squared sandstone and whinstone rubble, also with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings.

Architectural details include a base course, a cornice at the first floor, and an eaves course that connects the margins of the second-floor windows, rising to a modillioned cornice. The building has regular fenestration with basket-arched, stop-chamfered, roll-moulded windows featuring raised margins and bracketed cills on the second floor.

Access to the building includes two stone steps leading to a six-panel timber door with a fanlight, located on the outer left of the Kirkstile elevation. The upper storeys have bipartite stone-mullioned windows. There is a two-leaf timber-panelled door set in a recessed rectangular architrave at the corner. The ground floor of the curved Silver Street elevation has irregularly spaced openings, with two steps leading to a two-leaf timber-boarded door positioned to the right of centre, and a tall two-leaf timber-boarded door with a fanlight on the outer right. A late 20th-century flat-roofed dormer is situated at the attic to the right.

The ground floor features plate glass, while the upper floors predominantly have timber sash and case windows with a four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes coped ashlar stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the lobby of 9 Kirkstile is adorned with geometrically patterned ceramic floor tiles. The public house and some flats showcase fine ornamental cornices and ceiling roses.