8 Eastgate Street

8 Eastgate Street is a block of shops with dwellings above, designed in an eclectic classical style. The front walls are made of stucco and topped with slate roofs, which are slightly lower and hipped at No 4, featuring roughcast stacks. The building has three storeys, with consistent architectural details on the middle and upper levels, although the number of windows varies for each property. Each property is framed by angle pilasters on the middle and upper storeys, and is decorated with a frieze and a deeply moulded cornice that forms a sill band at the upper storey. The windows on the middle storey have moulded architraves with a sill band, while the upper storey features segmental-headed windows in plain architraves. The eaves cornice is moulded and includes brackets that alternate with raised quatrefoil panels.

The specific section at 8 Eastgate Street has a two-window range with a shop front on the lower storey. The shop front retains a pilaster with a diamond panel on the right side only, and the deepened fascia keeps its original cornice and end brackets. The shop window, which sits over a plain wooden stallboard, was boarded up during the inspection. To the left side, there is a recessed doorway beneath a panelled soffit, adorned with diaper tile work. The half-lit panelled door has a plain overlight above it. The middle and upper storeys maintain original two-light casements beneath fixed lights in the middle storey, and four-pane sash windows in the upper storey. This building is part of a group that includes 4-14 Eastgate Street.