Single build 1-7 Cannon Street, tall attractive and good example of a late C19th Gothic Revival red brick building with stone detailing. The whole build is at a slightly higher level to No6 on the southern side but is the same as No 4 to the north. The Ground floor western façade had a former commercial use but is now un-occupied. There is a large inserted commercial glazed frontage, shared with No 6 next door to the south (both of which have been boarded up). Some of the (possibly original) shop front details, including the pilasters and consoles over the party walls survive. The paintwork on the pilasters, particularly the southern example, is badly chipped in places and in poor condition. 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 has been blocked on the interior but otherwise looks to be original and in fairly good condition, though slightly weathered in places. 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. The base of the southern pilaster is at a slightly lower level than the northern one to accommodate for the lower level of the building next door (No 6). 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 is quite badly weathered I places. The cornice 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 4 and No 6 Cannon Street next door and continues over the pilaster located on either side of the commercial ground floor down to the pavement level. The northern down pipe is highly decorative and likely original to the building, the southern down pipe is less decorative though is in a similar style. The whole building is structurally sound though there is some staining and weathering to the stone detailing and to the brickwork, particularly at the upper level. There is some chipped paintwork on the pilasters over the party walls. The condition of the commercial ground floor could not be ascertained due to most of it being blocked by timber, though the small areas which were visible look neglected.

At the ground floor level, the original pilasters and decorative consoles over party walls still survive and may be original. The commercial windows are modern with metal surrounds. 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. The paintwork on the timber frames is chipped in places and the stone transoms, mullions and surrounds is weathered. 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 roof is slate, 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. Some of the slates have slipped/are missing. There are brick stacks over the ridge over both party walls, the southern example (between No 5 and 6) has a fair amount of vegetation growth at its upper level. (1)

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