City Bakery

Converted to open plan café space on the ground floor with counter and 6-panel doors (dividing partitions relocated from main rooms on first floor) at rear. 4-panel door to rear right provides access to basement and rear with kitchen and stores in rear wing. Door to right of shop front gives access to upper floors – entrance hall with black and white tiled floor and leaded light inner screen. Wide stair with turned timber balusters and heavy turned and moulded newel posts (repeating but diminishing in size to upper floors). First floor converted to shop but retains front and rear spaces and evidence of sliding partitions. Small room to right side and further work rooms in rear extension. Second floor divided into domestic rooms. Upper floors retain architraves and skirtings.

Shop and accommodation in a distinctively eclectic neo-classical style. Stucco and pebble dashed. Timber large-pane sash windows, slate roof and brick end stacks. 3 storey, 3 bay façade with ground floor shop front. Upper floors dominated by deep semi-circular bay windows in the outer bays overhanging a continuous cornice above the shop front. Central bay with segmental arched windows with keystones. Windows with projecting sills with shell style brackets. Each bay is separated by full height pairs of engaged, half round pilasters connecting the ground floor cornice and a deep dentil eaves cornice. Ground floor stucco with plinth and shop front with large display windows either side of recessed glazed double entrance doors. The walls below the windows are clad with brown glazed tiles, the glass pane over-lights with polychrome-patterned glass. Bowed timber sign board (later) in the place of original signage with gilt lettering on a black background full width of shop ‘CITY BAKERY – ESTABLISHED – 1880’. Open doorway with over-light to left giving alleyway access to rear, 3-panel door with stained glass over-light to right (to upper floors) accessed up 3 stone steps. Further 3 storey wing to rear with replacement windows.