Single build 1-7 Cannon Street, tall attractive and good example of a late C19th Gothic Revival red brick building with stone detailing. The Ground floor western façade has a commercial use with large glazed frontage which retains some of the (possibly original) shop front details, including the pilasters and consoles over the party walls, the cornicing over the shop sign, stall risers below the timber framed windows. 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. There is a further string course above the second-floor bay both these continue south and north 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. The balustrade is a later replacement of an original and is in a slightly lighter coloured stone and of a simpler style to the others on the terrace. There is a stone pilaster over both party walls running from the coping at the top of the parapet to the base of the second floor. A third stone pilaster is also present centrally within the gable end, which runs from the ridge of the roof to just below the top of the third floor. All three of these pilasters are topped by spherical stone finials. There is a slight parapet with stone coping on this gable end and two small windows, with the same stone surrounds, 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 across the whole façade of the terrace. There are metal gutter down pipes running next to the pilaster over the party wall on both sides of the façade. It starts from a gap in the wall at the top of the third floor, down to the bottom of the first floor where it joins with a gutter down pipe for No 2 and No 4 Cannon Street next door and continues over the pilaster located on either side of the commercial ground floor down to the pavement level. The down pipe is highly decorative and likely original to the building. The whole building is structurally sound and in good condition though there is some weathering to the stone detailing, some chipped paintwork on the pilasters over the party walls and some staining to the brickwork. The stone surrounds of the third-floor window look to have been recently improved. There is some lichen growth on the stone balustrade over the third-floor windows.

At the ground floor level, the original pilasters and decorative consoles over party walls still survive and may be original. The front door is part glazed and is situated immediately abutting the right party wall, with a rectangular blocked window located above the transom over the door. To the left of the door are two large panes over stall risers separated by a timber glazing bar align with the top of the door. Above these and the door are five smaller panes of equal size, again separated by timber glazing bars painted black. All are blocked with images relating to the commercial use of the ground floor. The two bays at the first and second floor level 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. 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 and are all painted. The windows at the third floor and within the gable end are only one pane wide. To the rear of the property (eastern façade) the windows lack the stone surrounds and mullions, but many of the original timber sashes appear to still be present.

The western (front) 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 gable roof with the gable ends over the party walls. (1)

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