Accountants House, Commercial building in The Rocks, Sydney, Australia.
Accountants House is a five-story commercial building in The Rocks with brick walls, timber beams, paired windows set in recessed bays, and battlemented parapets at 117-119 Harrington Street. The structure demonstrates the solid construction typical of early 1900s warehouse buildings.
The corner of Harrington and Essex Streets held Hogan's stables, a brick stable with an iron roof recorded in 1882 rate books. After the 1900 plague resumption, G. E. Crane and Sons bought the site and had a five-storey warehouse approved in July 1913, built c. 1914 to designs by Spain and Cosh. The Australian Society of Accountants purchased it around 1952 and converted it to offices, adding a new entry and terracotta tiling to the Harrington Street facade in 1950.
The building displays typical early 1900s business warehouse design and continues to shape the streetscape of The Rocks with its brick facades and tall window rows. The multiple street-level entrances reflect how different companies operated side by side within the same structure.
The building fronts Harrington Street at 117–119, with Essex Street along its southern side; the 1950 conversion added a new entry and terracotta tiling to the Harrington Street facade. A 1952 awning was installed over that Harrington Street entrance, and a 1962 entry and surround gave access from Essex Street to the first floor. The 1934 lift on the northern side appears to have been removed.
Gallows Hill was not the site itself but the nearby intersection of Essex and Gloucester Streets, named for its view into Sydney's first gaol complex. The corner of Harrington and Essex Streets held structures by 1807, and later Hogan's stables, whose yard entrance opened onto Harrington Street.
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