Theatre and 2 shops. Built 1920 for Miss Emily Blagg. Altered mid C20, altered and restored 1988. Brick with stucco front and stone and stucco dressings. Hipped and mansard slate and artificial slate roofs. Single external rear wall stack. 2 storeys, 7x12 bays. Angled front has round towers at the angles, topped with cupolas with onion domes, and coped parapets. Main entrance front, to left, has dentillated cornice. 3 glazing bar sashes with eared and shouldered architraves, with swags between them. Under the windows, an altered framed panel with scrolled ends with the theatre's name. Below, full width entrance with dentillated cornice and 2 square piers. Steps with wrought iron handrail. Shops front, to right, has 4 sashes with architraves and swags similar to the entrance front, plus aprons. Below, 2 wooden shopfronts with bracketed dentillated cornices, the right shopfront double width with central door. On either side, 12 full height recessed panels and a range of 11 windows, some of them blank. North east side has, below, 4 doors and 6 windows. South east end has plain round corner towers. Auditorium, narrowed and refitted 1988, has an enriched bow fronted gallery on 3 sides, with boxes. Enriched segmental proscenium arch. Plaster ceiling has enriched dentillated cornice and cove-cornered panels with ventilators between them. Entrance vestibule has enriched cornice and beamed ceiling. 2 pairs of segment headed half glazed doors with oval sidelights and segment headed stained glass overlights. (EH)