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 has a commercial use with a modern glazed frontage. Some of the (possibly original) shop front details survive, including the pilasters and consoles over the party walls, the cornicing over the shop sign, stall risers below the timber framed windows (with glazing bars) and a recessed door. Over the ground floor shop front there are two large, equally spaced windows per floor, (1st 2nd and 3rd floors) with four panes separated by stone mullions and transoms for each window and a stone string course separating the windows between each of the floors. These string courses continue across the facades of the whole 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 again to the base of the second floor. These pilasters are topped by spherical finials. There is a slight parapet with stone coping on this gable end and two small windows, both align with the inner part of 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 on both sides of the façade, near the pilaster over the party wall. They run from a gap at the top of the third floor to the bottom of the first floor where they join with the gutter down pipes for No 3 and No 5 Cannon Street and continue in front of the ground floor pilaster over the party wall down to the pavement level. They are both 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, particularly on the string courses between the floors, and some staining to the brickwork.

At the ground floor level, the original pilasters between the shop fronts and decorative consoles over party walls still survive. The shopfront has many modern features, though the frames around the windows and the doors are timber and there is a decorative timber stall riser which is in a similar style to that present on No 3 and so may also be original. The recessed front door is mostly glazed, with a rectangular window located above the transom over the door. It is located on the right-hand side of the façade with a large, two pane window to its left. On the far-right hand side of the ground floor façade, immediately abutting the ground floor door, there is a modern door giving access to the floors above. There are three blocked panes above the window and door. There are two first floor windows with stone surrounds, each is separated into four panes by stone transoms and mullions. The windows on the second and third floor align with the first-floor windows and are the same. Though there are stone transoms present on all the windows these to not appear to be attached to the painted timber frames, which look to be sash. The windows within the gable end are narrower than those below, only one pane wide, but align with the inner part of the third-floor windows. 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. There are two brick stacks located over the ridge of the roof over both of the party walls. A large aerial is attached to the southern most of these. (1)

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