Built of rich red brick with elaborate terracotta detailing around openings in particular to the balcony over the entrance on Market Street. This adjoins the former HSBC Bank housed in a grand, curved, brick building with sandstone details and a slate roof which forms the dominant Quadrant.
Other buildings here which form the centre of a large block of buildings are the former Fire Station, slightly art deco in style and probably built in the 1930s, the adjacent Old Fire House, a picturesque small scale brick building with slate roof and timber doors from the same period and the less distinguished post-WW2 buildings which house the Postal Sorting Office and shops.