The Lyric Theatre and front range to King Street

Range of shops and offices with cinema-theatre behind. 1930s modern style. Three storeys, 5-bay, front range in painted stucco with parapet. Centre bay is stepped slightly higher with plain flanking pilasters, flat-capped and parapet with stepped shoulders. Flanking bays have raised pilasters with centre triangular-section strip, one between windows one to outer angles. Broad band above ground floor. All upper storey windows are 16-pane horned sashes. Central later C20 glazed metal neo-Victorian entrance porch, with columns. Inside, two rectangular overlights over 4 deeply recessed 10-pane glazed panels, the middle 2 of which are doors with 1930s brass door plates and handles. C20 long shopfronts to each side. Left corner is curved and with left end wall is remnant of the 1854 building. Left end wall has stucco 3-storey, 3-window range with cornice, band, 16-pane first floor sashes and ground floor 2 big recessed panels with cambered-head windows and keystones (same detail as lost front elevation), third bay altered.

Entrance lobby leads through front range to foyer of theatre behind with 2 sets of 4 glazed doors and glazed display boxes each side. Panelled ceiling obscured. Second set of doors has sunburst glazing over. Foyer has deep panelled ceiling and cornice in bands, half-round booking kiosk with veneer cladding and line decoration in blue, gold and red. Two-panel fielded-panelled door to office on left. Enclosed broad stairs up on right. Two sets of double 2-panel fielded panelled doors to auditorium, both resited in late C20 one bay further out than original. Large auditorium is relatively plain with sloping ceiling and Art Deco style motifs to vents. Upper gallery front has alternate panels with raised strips wrapped around underside of gallery, added late C20 lower gallery. Gallery foyer has Art Deco banded cornice and recessed late C20 bar, detached round pier in front. Display cabinet on opposite wall. Double half-glazed doors to gallery. In foyer are displayed 2 original Peerless projection units.