City Bakery

This building is a shop and accommodation dating from the late 19th century, constructed in a distinctive neo-classical style. The exterior is a mix of stucco and pebble-dashed surfaces. It features timber sash windows with large panes, a slate roof, and brick end stacks. The three-storey, three-bay façade has a shop front on the ground floor. The upper floors are dominated by deep, semi-circular bay windows in the outer bays, which overhang a continuous cornice above the shop front. The central bay contains segmental arched windows with keystones. Windows have projecting sills with shell-shaped brackets. Each bay is separated by full-height pairs of engaged, half-round pilasters that connect the ground floor cornice to a deep dentil eaves cornice. The ground floor is stuccoed with a plinth, and the shop front has large display windows on either side of recessed, glazed double entrance doors. The walls below the windows are clad in brown glazed tiles, and the over-lights feature polychrome-patterned glass. A later bowed timber sign board with gilt lettering on a black background displays “CITY BAKERY – ESTABLISHED – 1880”. An open doorway with an over-light gives access to an alleyway at the rear. A three-panel door with a stained-glass over-light – accessed by three stone steps – leads to the upper floors. A further three-storey wing extends to the rear with replacement windows.

The ground floor has been converted into an open-plan café space, featuring a counter and six-panel doors. Dividing partitions within the café have been relocated from the original rooms on the first floor. A four-panel door on the rear right provides access to a basement and rear area, which contains a kitchen and stores within the rear wing. A door to the right of the shop front leads to the upper floors, opening into a hall with a black and white tiled floor and a leaded light inner screen. A wide staircase with turned timber balusters and heavy, turned, and moulded newel posts rises to the upper floors, with the newel posts repeating but diminishing in size. The first floor has been converted to shop space but retains front and rear areas, along with evidence of sliding partitions. A small room is located to the right side, while additional work rooms are in the rear extension. The second floor is divided into domestic rooms. The upper floors retain original architraves and skirtings.