Towy Works

Builders merchants premises, stripped modern style, white-painted render with flat roof and iron rail. Three storeys and basement, 6 bays, the sixth to right half-width, and also narrow blank bay each end. Bays are divided by piers, with first floor double band and second floor cornice broken forward over piers. Between upper floors, double band between piers only. Parapet divided by flat-capped piers. Ground floor sill band also broken forward over piers. Sash windows in pairs to upper floors and large square shop-window to ground floor. The sashes have small panes to top sash only. The shop-windows are divided into 4 by thin mullion and transom. The 6th bay has one sash each floor and narrow shop window. Basement entries under left 2 bays. Large lettered panels in parapet and between double bands over first and ground floors, panels originally enamelled metal, replaced in plastic. Main entry in one-bay E end wall with matching angle piers but openings at different levels to light stairs and parapet curves up over plaque with Towy works Limited. Broad double doors with pilaster sides and framed plaque over. First floor short 3-light window in moulded shouldered surround and large upper 3-light window with top-lights, in similar surround. Lettered panels over each level. The extension to the left of 1920 is a modernist grid of 3 storeys and 5-window range, large windows with small-paned glazing, plain piers between, ground floor later double-bay entry to left.

Front entrance hall with timber open-well staircase with closed string, turned balusters and large turned newels with ball finials. Boarded ceilings to main showrooms.