36 Gala Park

Later 19th century with later additions. 2-storey, 5-bay, bow-fronted corner sited shop with workroom above and attached annexe (now converted for office use, 2006). Wide 2-bay corniced shopfront facia with large workroom windows to N; later narrow double height timber canted window and bipartite pitched timber dormer with slated cheeks and decorative bargeboards to side (W) elevation. Coursed whin rubble with stugged and droved sandstone margins and quoins; stone cills. Assortment of brick early 20th century single-storey additions and late 20th century rendered stair section to rear (S) elevation. Plain rendered elevation to E.

Predominantly 4 and 8-pane timber sash and case windows; plate glass windows and half-glazed timber door with fanlight and decorative timber panels depicting rolls of fabric to shopfront. Plain 20th century timber door to right with fanlight. Small slate to pitched and curved roofs; lead ridges; coped ashlar end stack to E; brick end stacks to W; cast-iron downpipes.

INTERIOR: original plain decorative scheme of vertical timber boarding survives throughout open planned rooms to shop; round-plan cast-iron columns to main shop floor. Office to ground rear and small manager's office to upper room with plain fireplace and window to rear; glazed doors to dog-leg stair with turned timber balusters; half-glazed door at half-landing to exterior steps (now removed). Fine panelled woodwork to canted windows and decorative plaster work to principal rooms in office accommodation. Earlier 20th century panelled reception hallway to main entrance.