(including boundary wall to rear yard.)

This is a pair of three-storey shops with offices above, located at 4-4a Palace Street. The buildings date to the 19th century and retain significant original features.

The shops are constructed of scribed stucco, with a slate roof supported by bracketed eaves. A brick stack is centrally positioned, and a rendered stack sits to the right. Both shops retain elements of their original 19th-century frontages. These are framed by pilasters, which are brick in the lower half and rendered in the upper half, above a central raised field. The fascias have gabled end-brackets with fretwork ornamentation, supported by moulded consoles (missing from the left-hand end). Number 4a on the left has a deep dentil cornice to its original fascia, visible behind a more recent addition. The original fascia is also present behind the current fascia at number 4, although its details are somewhat obscured. Number 4a features a plate glass shop window with turned mahogany posts, arched at the top and decorated with relief foliage spandrels, and a plain stallboard. A recessed central doorway and a left-hand doorway both have overlights, with panelled doors leading to the shops and upper storeys. Number 4 has panelled doors with a raised field to the lower panel, under overlights, on both the right and left sides, with a two-light shop window between. The middle storey has four-pane sash windows with moulded architraves, linked by a decorative band featuring relief foliage. The upper storey has a sill band, with four-pane sash windows at number 4a and two-pane sash windows at number 4.

At the rear of number 4a, a boundary wall extends to the rear yard. This wall consists of three high arches supported on slender piers built of roughly squared stone, including voussoirs for the arches. Traces of lime-wash or render are visible. The wall’s finished face is away from Palace Street, while the piers facing the yard appear roughly toothed, suggesting that there were originally vaulted passageways opening onto a rear yard or garden.