page_title: Corn Exchange, Sydney
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Corn Exchange, Sydney / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: corn exchange, sydney
context_page_description: The Corn Exchange is a heritage-listed former market building located at 173-185 Sussex Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by George McRae and built from 1887. It formerly housed PACT Youth Theatre. It was incorporated into the Nikko Hotel development in the 1980s, but has been commercial office space since the 1990s. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 28 June 2002.
context_section_description: The Corn Exchange Building is a stucco-fronted three-storey structure with elliptical arches at street level and a curving corner at the southern end. Two levels face Sussex Street with a basement below facing west. The slated roof of the building is an assembly of pyramidal and hipped gable shapes with a simple curved roof matching the façade to the south. The existing fixed shop-front glazing is painted white or obscured by curtains. While it has been extensively modified over the years, the building remains a good example of Queen Anne style commercial architecture.
  The ground and first floors' internal framing, which consists of a mixture of brick piers and circular cast iron columns supporting riveted composite wrought iron girders, remains. The exposed roof framing and timber lining boards required considerable replacement during the 1990s conservation works. By the 1980s only scant evidence remained of the early internal partitioning of the ground and first floors. The open plan floor plate was retained during the 1990 alterations for the adaptive re-use and fitout as a small department store and restaurant.
  The name of the mayor of the City of Sydney in 1887,  Alban Joseph Riley, appears over the entrance door on the corner.
caption: Name of the mayor, A. J. Riley, over the entrance door, 2011
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