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 building is at a slightly lower level to No 5 to the north but is level with No 7 to the south. The ground floor has a shared former commercial use with No 5, though is now un-occupied and boarded up. There is a heavily inserted modern glazed frontage with metal window and door surrounds. Some, possibly original, shop front details survive including the pilasters and consoles over the party walls and the cornicing over the shop sign. The plaster/paintwork on the pilasters is badly chipped and worn in places. The flashing over the ground floor cornice is visible and forms the sill of the first-floor windows. 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, though they are at a slightly lower level on No 6-7 than on No 1-5. 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, but again is at a lower level on No 6-7 than Nos 1-5. 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 5 and No 7 Cannon Street and continue in front of the ground floor pilaster over the party wall down to the pavement level. The whole building looks to be structurally sound and in good condition though there is some weathering to the stone detailing, particularly on the cornice between the third floor and the attic, and some staining to the brickwork. The ground floor is in a worse condition to the rest of the building. It was not clearly seen due to it being boarded up, the parts which were visible could have done with some improvement.

At the ground floor level, the original pilasters and decorative consoles over party walls still survive and may be original. The commercial ground floor windows and doors were not seen but are modern with metal surrounds. 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. Some of the paintwork on the timber window frames is badly chipped.

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, the northern stack has a fair amount of vegetation growth at its upper level. There were some loose and slipped tiles and the whole roof structure appears to bow towards the centre. (1)

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 Kent County Council, 2019, Historic building condition asseesment and photographic survey of Dover Town Centre (Unpublished document).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