Single build 1-7 Cannon Street, southernmost in a group of 7, attached on the southern side by a later building on a smaller scale. This is a tall, attractive and good example of a late C19th Gothic Revival red brick building with stone detailing. The Ground floor western façade has a modern commercial use but retains some of the (possibly original) shop front details, including the pilasters and consoles over the party walls and cornice over the commercial sign. The window and door frames are in a painted timber and may also be original (though this is uncertain). 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 north across the whole of the terrace. The bay window does not continue onto the third floor but there is a 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 in a simpler style, it lacks any of the decorative carved stone which is apparent o some of the other buildings within this 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. The cornice continues across the whole façade of the terrace. There are original metal gutter down pipes running next to the pilaster over the party wall on both sides of the façade. these start from a gap in the wall at the top of the third floor, down to the bottom of the first floor. The northern gutter joins with a gutter down pipe for No 6 Cannon Street next door, both continue over the pilaster located on either side of the commercial ground floor, down to the pavement level. The upper part of the southern façade is visible above the roof of No 8-9 next door. This has been rendered and none of the decorative stone work detailing continues onto this side. The chimney walls protrude from the façade and split into two the top of the third-floor level (both the front and rear rooms appear to have fireplaces). There is a low parapet over the party wall gable end with stone (?) coping. A satellite dish is attached to the wall near the point where the parapet of No 8-9 adjoins No 7. The whole building appears to be structurally sound though there is some staining and weathering to the stone detailing and window surrounds and to the brickwork, particularly at the upper level.

At the ground floor level, the original pilasters and decorative consoles over party walls still survive and may be original. The commercial ground floor has consists of a glazed timber door with a large timber framed window on either side and three windows above a transom aligning with the windows and doors below. All window and door surrounds are in timber painted great, all of the windows at the ground floor level appear to be fixed and do not open. The commercial ground floor is slightly off centre due to another door located on the northern side, immediately abutting the northern party wall. This gives access to the upper floors, it is modern and recessed within a small porch. There are two large canted bays at the first and second floor level, each have 10 openings, 5 in the upper which are slightly taller than the 5 in the lower, with six centrally and four in the angles, separated by the stone transoms and mullions, all have a single pane. The frames are in painted timber (white) the majority appear to be fixed, though the lower, outer two of the central part of each bay are casement. The windows at the third floor and within the gable end are only one pane wide, the lower part of all are casement. 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. The slates and the structure of the roof is in good condition. There are brick stacks over the ridge over both party walls, the southern example is slightly larger than the northern and 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.