3 Oliver Place

3 Oliver Place is a building dated 1878, featuring three storeys plus an attic. It has a symmetrical, three-bay design that includes shops on the ground floor and offices and tenements above. The first and second floors have a bowed central bay, gabled dormers, rich Gothic detailing, and a mansard roof, and it forms part of a terrace. The front is finished with smooth render, while the rear is made of squared, roughly coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and raised cills.

The building has a partial base course, a fascia cornice, cill courses on the first and second floors, and a continuous hoodmould and lintel course at the first floor. The eaves course rises to a corbelled cornice, and there are foliate capitals on the pilaster quoins. The windows are predominantly basket-arched, with bipartite designs on the first and second floors and in the central dormer. These windows feature slender, foliate-capitalled columns, stop-chamfered mullions, and margins. The central entrance has a six-panel timber door with a semicircular fanlight above, supported by a deeply projecting keystone that highlights the bowed section. This door is flanked by engaged columns with octagonal bases and foliate capitals. The eaves corbels and dormer gables are richly carved.

The ground floor has plate glass, while the upper floors feature timber sash and case windows, with plate glass in the central bay that is curved on the first and second floors, and 4-pane glazing in the outer bays. The rear has 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and the building has ashlar-coped, kneelered skews, as well as coped ashlar stacks with predominantly octagonal buff clay cans.

Inside, there is a stone stair leading to the close, featuring a polished timber handrail and a decorative cast-iron balustrade at the top storey. The first floor includes four-panel timber doors, some tongue-and-groove panelling around the windows, plain cornices, and identical painted timber chimneypieces in each room that have chamfering and console details.