1 North Bridge Street

James Pearson Alison, 1894. 3-storey and attic, roughly triangular-plan terminal block with semicircular bow-ended ground floor to Dutch-gabled principal (S) elevation, 2nd-floor semicircular-pedimented dormers breaking eaves to sides (E and W), and some Classical detailing. Tooled yellow sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Deep plinth to corner bow; chamfered base course to corner bow and W elevation; 1st-floor band course; 1st-floor and 2nd-floor cill courses; eaves course. Predominantly rectangular windows, some stone-mullioned.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Symmetrical. Bowed ground floor with 4 large pilastered windows and recessed central door with fanlight, crowned by fascia. Tripartite shallow bow window at 1st floor crowned by parapet with pierced lettering (see NOTES). 2 rectangular windows at 2nd floor; lozenge-shaped window with Baroque scrolled margins at gable apex, in interlocking pilastered, ball-finialled architraves. Corner tourelles supporting garlanded stone urns flanking 2nd floor. Swan-neck pediment to gable.

W (NORTH BRIDGE STREET) ELEVATION: 4 evenly spaced bays. 3 stone steps to 2-leaf timber-panelled door with rectangular fanlight and narrow rectangular side lights in pilastered, swan-neck-pedimented architrave, to left of centre; bipartite stone-mullioned windows to left at ground and 1st floors; single rectangular lights elsewhere; 2 late-20th-century attic dormers. Moulded margins with raised cills, and entablatures at 1st floor.

E (BOURTREE PLACE) ELEVATION: Roughly 5 irregularly spaced bays. Stair windows to right of centre, bipartite at 1st floor and round-arched at 2nd floor. Tall, consoled wallhead stack to left. Moulded margins with raised cills.

Fixed plate glass to ground floor of S elevation; painted glass stair window in E elevation; predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roof with metal ridge; ashlar-coped skews; ashlar stacks with string course, cope, and predominantly octagonal decorative buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Tongue-and-groove timber panelling to premises in bowed corner. Stone open-well stair to offices and upper apartment, with decorative cast-iron grate at base, closed timber balustrade from ground to 1st floors and decorative cast-iron balustrade with polished timber handrail from 1st to 2nd floors. Some dado panelling; some decorative cornices; mostly half-glazed timber-panelled doors, with some etched glass.