Granite Buildings, Stanley Street

Granite Buildings, Stanley Street 
c.1882
Grade II

One of the most striking commercial buildings in the city centre is Granite Buildings, so called because of its austere façade of granite. 

The architect G.E. Grayson is better known for more decorative and conventional buildings such as those in brick and stone at the northern end of Castle Street. 

The rear of the building forms a row of gabled warehouses used originally for the storage of fruit, and faced in white glazed brick.