Including The Exchange Bar, 1 Silver Street And 9 Kirkstile

Late 19th century. 3-storey corner block comprising public house at ground floor and tenement above; 2 bays to Kirkstile, 4 bays to Silver Street and slightly recessed, bowed bay to corner. Tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone; polished ashlar dressings; painted ashlar to ground; some roughly squared sandstone and some whinstone rubble with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings to rear. Base course; 1st-floor cornice; eaves course linking margins of 2nd-floor windows, rising to modillioned cornice. Regular fenestration with basket-arched, stop-chamfered, roll-moulded, raised margins; bracketed cills at 2nd floor.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2 stone steps to 6-panel timber door with fanlight to outer left of Kirkstile elevation; bipartite, stone-mullioned windows at upper storeys. 2-leaf, timber-panelled door in recessed rectangular architrave to corner. Irregularly spaced openings at ground floor of curved Silver Street elevation; 2 steps to 2-leaf, timber-boarded door to right of centre; tall, 2-leaf, timber-boarded door with fanlight to outer right; late-20th-century flat-roofed dormer at attic to right.

Plate glass at ground floor; predominantly 4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows above. Grey slate roof. Coped ashlar stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Geometrically patterned ceramic floor tiles to lobby of 9 Kirkstile. Fine ornamental cornices and ceiling roses to public house and to some flats.