50 Water Street

50 Water Street is a 19th-century building constructed of red brick with gold terracotta bands and dressings, topped with a slate roof. It features a row of four shops on the Water Street side, which have been converted into offices. The corner shop, which faces Crescent Road, has a distinctive architectural design with two windows on Water Street and a single window on Crescent Road, creating an angled corner.

The Water Street elevation includes two prominent pedimented bays that house entrances and are flanked by shop fronts. The first floor has outer and paired central canted oriel windows. The doorways are set back within segmental arches that are adorned with mannerist pilasters supporting the architraves. The flanking shop fronts also have recessed doorways, with curved shop windows divided by slim mullions and high-set transoms featuring small upper panes. Above the doorways are sash windows.

The taller corner block has large segmentally arched windows with scrolled voussoirs and small upper panes on each floor, framed by mannerist pilasters on the ground floor and plain pilasters above. A continuous moulded cornice and blocking course bands run along the top. The entrance at the corner is set within a segmentally arched architrave, with a hoodmould supported by bold mannerist brackets. Above this, a canted turret projects out, featuring three narrow sash windows with rubbed brick heads and topped with an ogee leaded roof and fleche.

Decorative low relief panelling that incorporates a clock is located below the roof. The building has segmentally arched pedimented gables with ball finials and scrolled kneelers at the attic level on either side of the tower, as well as on the rear return facing Water Street. These gables feature oculi set in cartouches with keystones and voussoirs.