Palace Vaults

The Palace Vaults is a public house built in the 19th century, designed in an "artisan classical" style. It features four bays and three storeys with an attic. The front is symmetrical, with a pedimented design and walls made of scribed stucco, accented by stressed quoins. The slate roof has dentilled eaves and is hipped to the right, with two roughcast stacks on the front slope.

The lower storey is divided into four bays by pairs of Ionic columns, with a single column to the left of the centre, all supporting a fascia with a dentilled cornice. This level has 16-pane hornless sash windows, except for the left of centre bay, which contains a double panelled door with a plain overlight and a narrow 12-pane hornless sash window to its right. A cast iron crane is attached to the right side of the left-hand bay above cellar trap doors. The middle storey features 12-pane hornless sash windows with architraves that have alternate segmental and triangular pediments on moulded consoles. The upper storey has 9-pane sashes, with the left of centre window being horned, all set in moulded architraves with a sill band. The central pediment includes a round-headed attic window with a hood mould supported by corbels.

The right side elevation, which faces Palace Street, is simpler and consists of six bays with 12 and 9-pane sash windows, although the left end and left of centre bays are blind. The lower storey has replaced double doors to the left under an ironwork overlight, with a 12-pane horned sash window to its right. Further to the right, the lower storey is divided into two double bays by pilasters and a cornice on consoles, indicating an earlier subdivision of the building. The left side has two 12-pane hornless sash windows, while the right side features double fielded-panel doors and paired 12-pane hornless sashes separated by a slender mullion, which was previously a shop window.

The L-shaped rear has a shallow outshut in the angle that includes margin-lit round-headed windows, and 2-pane sashes at the back of the Palace Street elevation, which was once a separate property known as 22 Palace Street. There are modern additions against the lower storey. The interior has been modernised.