This building was constructed in the 1890’s after Cannon Street was widened in 1893. Its upper storeys are highly decorative and retain many original features. The ground floor is a heavily modified modern shopfront with a large glazed frontage, though some original ornamental detailing survives on the plaster pilasters over the party walls which retain part of the Corinthian order style capitals. These pilasters continue over the party walls on the floors above. The first, second and third floors are in exposed red brick with plaster and stone detailing. On the first floor there are two Palladian windows with highly decorative surrounds and mullions, they share a continuous sill which also forms a string course across the rest of the façade. Beneath the central part of each of these windows there is an elaborately carved protrusion which forms a small balconette, over which are original cast iron railings. There is a moulded string course directly above the keystone of the first-floor windows and below the brackets for the sill of the second floor window. There is one large centrally placed window on the second floor, divided into three sashes by timber mullions. There is another continuous sill forming a string course beneath this window with an original cast iron railing over. Above the window is a triangular pediment aligning with the central portion of the window and further string course aligns with the base of the pediment. Two pilasters, one either side of the window, are present on the third floor stretching from just over the level of the continuous sill on the second floor, to a spherical finial at the roof level. Above the third floor, there is a cornice with a ornamental balustrade, over which rests the base of the dormer window which, like the windows below, has a highly elaborate and decorative surround, including a date stone (1895). There is some staining and damage to the architectural features located across this façade, particularly to the balustrade at the roof level, where there is a fair amount of vegetation growth and there are some serious cracks to the plasterwork. Despite this, overall this is an attractive Late C19th façade with many surviving original features.

The ground floor is modern and retains none of the original shop front openings, there are two doors, one gives access to the commercial ground floor and the other to the floors above, both are within a recessed porch area on the southern side of the façade. At the first floor there are two Palladian windows with highly decorative surrounds and mullions, they share a continuous sill which also forms a string course across the rest of the façade. There is a transom about 2/3rds of the way up the windows creating two small square and one semi-circular openings in the upper part of the windows, all of which appear to be fixed. The lower part of the windows are casement, opening outwards, with timber frames painted white. On the second floor there is a single large, centrally placed window, again with a decorative plaster surround. It is divided into three sash windows by two timber mullions. The two outer parts consist of narrow, two pane sashes while the central is wider and consists of four panes divided by timber glazing bars. Again the frames are timber painted white. The dormer window at the roof level is lager and centrally placed. It is divided into two sash windows (each with four panes and divided by glazing bars) by a timber mullion. The upper parts of the sashes are rounded, and the whole window has an elaborate plasterwork surround.

Slate, gambrel roof with metallic flashing. The slates are rounded at the base. Two tall brick stacks over each of the party walls.(1)

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