22 Hannah Street

22,23 and 25 Hannah Street Of sandstone ashlar and red brick with baroque detailing; artificial slate roof with ridge tiles. Three storeys and basement comprising ground floor shops, former offices now club premises above. Frontage originally comprised main central decorative gable and lower decorative wings on each side; that to the right is included although partly remodelled. Modern shop fronts to Nos 22 and 23; No 25, originally a baker's, has cast metal inscription band under the curved shopfront window with slender mullion and decorative recessed door to left with large glazed panel and steep curved pediment above. No 24, the butcher's shop, is listed separately. First floor has 5 window main frontage of 1 central round headed and 4 rectangular windows with renewed glazing separated by pilasters with deep keystones reaching to a broken pediment above each window, the central keystone reaching to string course above and all spandrels filled with richly carved swags. Upper floor has 3 similar round headed windows with fluted pilasters, decorative Ionic capitals, cartouches with grapes at each side; above is a recessed decorative rectangular inscription plaque 'T E' with carved corn and maize motifs and engraved date above 1905. Channelled pilasters to side support scroll brackets from which rises a Flemish gable topped by a moulded coping and 5 urns. From the side the main roof visible as 3 gables. Right wing rendered; 6 round headed windows with replaced glazing and remodelled battlemented parapet. Postcard painting before 1918 shows central gable in very near current form, though flanked on both sides by wings each with 2 lower Flemish gables.