54 Water Street

54 Water Street is a Grade II listed building featuring red brick with gold terracotta bands and dressings, topped with a slate roof. The structure consists of a row of four shops along the Water Street elevation, which are currently used as offices. At the corner with Crescent Road, there is a larger shop that has a distinctive architectural design, displaying a two-window range on Water Street and a single window return on Crescent Road, with an angled corner.

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

The higher corner block boasts large segmentally arched windows with scrolled voussoirs and small upper panes on each floor, positioned between 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 angle is framed by a segmentally arched architrave, with a hoodmould supported by bold mannerist brackets. Above, a canted turret is corbelled out, featuring three narrow sash windows with rubbed brick heads and an ogee leaded roof topped with a fleche. Decorative low relief panelling, which incorporates a clock, is situated below the roof. The segmentally arched pedimented gables, complete with ball finials and scrolled kneelers, are found at the attic on either side of the tower, as well as on the rear return facing Water Street. These gables also feature oculi in cartouches with keystones and voussoirs.