Phoenix Buildings

Phoenix Buildings is a three-storey structure with three main bays and a narrower bay to the right. It is constructed of red brick with bathstone dressings set on a grey rock-faced plinth. The building features a bathstone entablature with a parapet, dentil cornice, and a plain frieze that includes the inscriptions 'Phoenix Buildings' and '1901'. The main section of the facade has giant pilasters made of red brick at both ends on the first and second floors. Flanking the central bay are Ionic pilasters in bathstone, with engaged bathstone half pilasters in the inner angles of the brick pilasters. The windows are bipartite with bathstone surrounds. On the first floor, there is a shallow cornice above the windows and a string course at sill level. The ground floor features a central doorway with a segmental head, flanked by broad windows in a similar style, all in bathstone with classicizing detailing. The narrow end bay to the right has a brick pilaster on the first and second floors and single light windows with bathstone surrounds. The wall surface of this bay is slightly set forward from the main bays. The entrance doorway on the ground floor has a shallow segmental arch with three keystones and a relief of a phoenix above it.