Single build 1-7 Cannon Street, tall attractive and good example of a late C19th Gothic Revival red brick building with stone detailing. No 1 is on the far northern corner of the terrace and has a triangular plan due to the nature of its location; on the junction of St Marys Passage with Cannon Street. The Ground floor western façade is a painted plaster and glazed shop front which retains many of the (possibly original) shop front details, including the pilasters and consoles over the corners and party wall, the cornicing over the shop sign and the decorative tiled floor at the point of the original entrance. The north west corner is at and angle to the rest of the build and would have originally contained the ground floor access, though this has been moved to west façade and the north west angled corner is now a floor to ceiling window. On the western (street) façade there is a large canted bay window at first and second floor level, with stone window surrounds and a stone string course in between the bays. This string runs across the façade onto the north west corner also, where it aligns with the base of the second floor and top of the first-floor windows, which are here narrow with stone surrounds and transoms. There is a further string course above the second-floor bay which also continues around the façade and onto the north west angled corner, again immediately above and below a window on this corner. Both string courses continue south and are present across the whole of the terrace. The bay window does not continue onto the third floor but there is a decorative stone balustrade over the bay forming a small balcony for the two third-floor windows, which are both narrow with stone transoms and surrounds. There is a stone pilaster on both outer edges of the western façade running from the eaves to the base of the second floor. A third stone pilaster is also present centrally within the triangular west (street) facing gable end, which runs from the ridge to just below the top of the third floor. There is a slight parapet with stone coping on this gable end, with a central spherical finial at the point of the ridge and two small windows aligning with those on the third floor below. Between the top of the third floor and the gable end, there is a stone cornice return which has numerous rounded stone corbels beneath. This continues around the north west angled corner, as well as south across the rest of the terrace. To the north of the gable end, over the angled north west corner there is a small square turret at roof level, with a single window that aligns with those within this angled corner on the four floors below. The sill of the window within the turret aligns with the top of the cornice, while there is a thin string course in stone aligning with the top of the window. the stone architectural detail across the fest façade continues for a short stretch (approx. 1-2m) on to the north façade but stops where it meets the brick stack which is located near the north west corner of the building and protrudes from the façade from about half way up the first floor to the top of the roof level. There is a large two storey bay window immediately to the east of the stack at the first and second floor level. There is a further sash window at the third-floor level above this bay and a hipped roof dormer directly aligning with it in the roof above. At the far eastern end of the northern façade there are three windows, one per floor, and a ground floor door with a decorative (possibly original) light attached to a bracket next to the door. The whole building is structurally sound and in good condition though there is some weathering to the stone detailing, and some staining to the brickwork.

The ground floor glazed commercial frontage is modern and contains large floor to ceiling windows. The original pilasters and decorative consoles at the corners and party walls between the glazed areas still survive. The two bays on the western façade have 10 openings, 5 in the upper which are slightly taller than the 5 in the lower, with six centrally and four in the corners, separated by the stone transoms and mullions, all have a single pane. The two third-floor, and gable windows also have stone surrounds and transoms separating the 2 panes within each, and painted timber frames. Though there are stone transoms present on all the windows these to not appear to be attached to the timber frames, which look to be sash. The windows on the north façade all have painted timber frame sash windows, with large single panes. There is a small dormer window in the northern face of the rood, towards the eastern end of the building.

The western part of the roof is gabled, with a slight parapet at the gable end which is facing Cannon Street, the eastern part of the roof is steeply pitched slate hip roof with a single dormer facing north, and metal flashing over the ridge. The roof of the turret is a steeply pitched slate hipped roof with small iron railings at its very top and a metal flashing at the ridges.(1)

<1> Kent County Council, 2019, Historic building condition asseesment and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre (Unpublished document). SKE52120.