54-56 Norton Road

The three-storey brick building in ‘Italian Gothic’ style. Brickwork is English garden wall bond with varying. The roof is ridged and tiled. The front elevation, ground floor, has shutters painted to look like a brick/glass shop front. There is a wooden ornamental panel above. There is a wooden ornamental double door in a frame with an Ogee stained-glass panel. The shop front has ornamental pillars at either end and at the side of the door itself. On the first floor there is FIVE three-pane windows with stone sills and lintels; the outermost two are narrow with ornamented gothic arches above with inset terracotta work. The first floor lintel level has ornamental stonework with inset shields by six (all different).

The second floor has three three-pane Gothic arch windows set within an ornamental brick Gothic arch with stone sills and brick lintels. In the centre of the large Gothic arch is a ‘bullseye’ round window. There is a stone stringer course extending from the edge of the building and following the edge of the Gothic arch. There is also vertical fluted terracotta around the arch. There are ‘Crow-foot’ stones around the top of the gable. There is a large stone nameplate between the first and second floors stating, ‘Eugene E. Clephan North East Steam Building Works’. There is a weather vane at the top of the ridge. The building on the North side appears to be in three separate parts; the first part is the brick frontage which stretches about five metres back. This has a first floor window similar to that at the end of the frontage with stone surround and two inset shields. There are two very narrow eleven-pane windows between the ground floor and the first floor. There are two two-pane windows above these on the top floor with stone lintels. On the ground floor there appears to have been a round window with a stone surround which is blocked-up. There is also a low level window blocked up next to a blocked up doorway at a higher level, with a blocked up window to the east. There is a rearward extension at a lower level which is asymmetric with a tiled ridge roof. This appears to have been constructed in two phases; the first phase is three storeys at the West end and two-pane inset windows with stone sills on each floor.

There is a further extension which has four five-pane windows with curved tops and no sills, separated by pillars on the first and second floors. The ground floor has what appears to have been five openings; two have sliding wooden doors and the others are blocked. The whole of the building is rendered in two colours. There are the remains of an external rendered chimney on the east side of the building and another on the north side.