The new front entrance establishes the building’s street presence. With contemporary black painted metal-framed glass doors set back from the original Victorian gateway, it maintains its historic frontage. Once an open vehicular entrance that allowed access for carriages and deliveries to the yard behind, the space is now an enclosed lobby, with translucent glass-brick walls creating a light-filled link between the building’s two symmetrical halves.

The upper floor office spaces were reconfigured using Crittall partitioning to maximise daylight and create an airy and inviting space. The fabric of the building was painstakingly restored, along with the exposed timber roof structure and historic beams in the open plan eaves space. Brick walls were uncovered and repaired, and the steelwork and column heads were all exposed and painted black to match the refurbished original Victorian window frames.