92 to 98 Westgate Road (Imperial Buildings)

Shops and offices, Circa 1895. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys and
attics; 2:3:l:3 bays and curved left corner bay to Cross Street. Office entrance
in centre of 7 right bays: panelled double door under keyed oeuil-de-boeuf and
cartouche, flanked by rusticated pilasters. Similar pilasters frame shops, that
at left with boarded covering to ends and fascia; entablature over shops at right.
Ground-floor cornice, bracketed above entrance where it curves out to form balcony
with low iron railing. Giant Ionic Order above defining each group of windows;
Tuscan Order pilasters flanking each first floor window under pulvinated frieze
and cornice; scrolled pediments over central window of each group of 3). Second-
floor windows have blind balustrade. Second-floor entablature with modillioned
cornice. Fourth-floor windows have keyed architraves. Left curved corner has one-
bay turret with high dome. LISTED GRADE 2