53 to 61 Grainger Street (Chaucer Buildings)

Shops, offices and Freemasons Hall. Circa 1869; probably by Gibson Kyle. Sand-
stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. Venetian Gothic style.
3 storeys and attics; 9 bays. Central renewed door and overlight under shouldered
lintel on shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. Bracketed cast iron balcony above.
C20 shops; ground-floor cornice. Arcaded first floor has paired round-headed
windows except for central window of 3 lights. Top floor has gable over 3 left
bays with tall, paired 2-light windows under roundel with carved ornament;
crocketed gable moulding on curved kneelers has clove finial. Bays to right
have nook shafts to alternately cusped and segmental-headed windows, that over
entrance projecting slightly. Corbel table above these bays supports balustrade
and gabled dormers in alternate bays; moulded kneelers and clove finials.
Ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2