56 Portland Street

56 Portland Street is a symmetrical late Georgian building, dating from the 18th century. It is three storeys high and features a three-window front made of scribed stucco, with a channelled ground floor, cill bands, and a second-floor impost band. The roof is slate, with wide bracket eaves and stock brick chimney stacks. The first and second floors have horned small pane sash windows with architraves. Above the central entrance, there is a Victorian bracketed hood with ironwork cresting over fishscale slates. The entrance itself is recessed and flanked by pilasters, leading to a four-panel door.

The right gable end has similar detailing, featuring a plain open pediment, plain bargeboards, and boarded eaves, except at the left and right ends. There is a chimney breast with inset Ruabon brick scrolls at the corbelled second-floor level, above a blind pediment and decorative panel. The glazing is consistent with the rest of the building, and the first-floor cill steps up around the corner. At the back, there is a second-storey, three-bay cross range that adjoins the set-back Farmers' Union building, with the furthest two bays having a pedimented design and an inset plaster swagged feature. There is a blind panel above an additional small pane window on the ground floor, and the rear is constructed of rubble.