25 and 27 Quayside (Broad Garth House)

Shop and offices, now offices. 1869 by John Wardle for W.C. Brown. Sandstone
ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys and attics, 4 windows. Office entrance at
right has renewed double door and fanlight in quadrant-moulded arched surround with
keystone and alternately - rusticated voussoirs. Former shop has renewed glazing
and blocked door with window inserted. Chamfered pilasters support ground-floor
cornice. Sash windows on upper floors, with lintel band, chamfered above windows,
to rusticated first floor, and 8 carved tympana above. Second floor has recessed
abacus and coved recessed strips flanking windows and between bays, with Italian
Gothic carving to 8 panels above. Prominent second-floor cornice. Plain reveals
to third-floor sashes; end pilasters with mask brackets. Mace-head finials to top
cornice and to central dormer with Diocletian window. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. LISTED GRADE 2