1 North Bridge Street

This is a three-storey and attic building of 1894, designed by James Pearson Alison and located at 1 North Bridge Street. The building has a roughly triangular plan with a semicircular, bow-ended ground floor facing South, and a Dutch-gabled principal elevation. The East and West sides feature semicircular-pedimented dormers that break the eaves. The construction is primarily of tooled yellow sandstone ashlar with polished dressings.

The South (principal) elevation is symmetrical. The bowed ground floor features four large pilastered windows and a recessed central door with a fanlight, topped by a fascia. A shallow, tripartite bow window is placed at the first floor, surmounted by a parapet with pierced lettering. Two rectangular windows are positioned at the second floor, and a lozenge-shaped window with Baroque scrolled margins sits at the gable apex, all framed within interlocking pilastered architraves with ball finials. Corner tourelles support garlanded stone urns flanking the second floor, and a swan-neck pediment tops the gable.

The West (North Bridge Street) elevation is divided into four evenly spaced bays. A set of three stone steps leads to a two-leaf timber-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight and narrow side lights, all within a pilastered, swan-neck-pedimented architrave to the left of centre. Bipartite stone-mullioned windows are situated to the left at ground and first floors, with single rectangular windows elsewhere. Two attic dormers were added in the late 20th century. Moulded margins with raised cills and entablatures are present at the first floor.

The East (Bourtree Place) elevation is of roughly five irregularly spaced bays. Stair windows are located to the right of the centre, with a bipartite window at the first floor and a round-arched window at the second floor. A tall wallhead stack sits to the left. Moulded margins with raised cills are also visible here.

Fixed plate glass is used on the ground floor of the South elevation, while a painted glass stair window is found on the East elevation. Predominantly plate glass is set in timber sash and case windows elsewhere. The roof is covered in grey slate with a metal ridge; ashlar-coped skews; and ashlar stacks with a string course, cope, and predominantly octagonal decorative buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The interior features tongue-and-groove timber panelling in the bowed corner premises. A stone open-well staircase leads to the offices and upper apartment, with a decorative cast-iron grate at the base and a closed timber balustrade from the ground to the first floors, transitioning to a decorative cast-iron balustrade with a polished timber handrail from the first to the second floors. Additional features include dado panelling, decorative cornices, mostly half-glazed timber-panelled doors with some etched glass.