3 Oliver Place

Dated 1878. 3-storey plus attic storey, 3-bay, symmetrical block comprising shops at ground floor and offices and tenement above, with bowed centre bay at 1st and 2nd floors, gabled dormers, rich Gothic detailing and mansard roof, forming part of terrace. Smooth render to front; squared, roughly coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and raised cills to rear. Partial base course; fascia cornice; 1st- and 2nd-floor cill courses; continuous hoodmould and lintel course to 1st floor; eaves course rising to corbelled cornice. Foliate capitals to pilaster quoins. Predominantly basket-arched windows, bipartite to 1st and 2nd floors and central dormer, with slender, foliate-capitalled columns to stop-chamfered mullions and margins. Central, 6-panel timber door with semicircular fanlight, with deeply projecting keystone supporting bowed section above (see NOTES), flanked by engaged columns with octagonal bases and foliate capitals. Richly carved eaves corbels and dormer gables (see NOTES).

Plate glass at ground floor; timber sash and case windows above, with plate glass to central bay, curved at 1st and 2nd floors, and 4-pane glazing to outer bays; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to rear. Grey slate roof. Ashlar-coped, kneelered skews. Coped ashlar stacks with predominantly octagonal buff clay cans.

INTERIOR: Stone stair to close, with polished timber handrail, and decorative cast-iron balustrade to top storey. 1st floor with 4-panel timber doors, some tongue-and-groove panelling around windows, plain cornices, and identical painted timber chimneypieces in each room with chamfering and console details.