[1] The building was constructed in 1872 as F and J Smith’s Furniture Warehouse at a cost of £11,000.
Between 1926 and 1929, the building was expanded and partially revised according to a design by Gillespie Kidd & Coia.
The shop front on the ground floor of the four-story building is modern.
The pillars of the round-arch arcade are banded; the archivolts, like the gusset plates, are ornamented.
The two upper floors feature cast iron arcades.