This property is a three-storey corner house originally owned by the English Knight Sir James Shelley. Its main entrance consists of an arched doorway with fat, rounded mouldings and architrave, above which is a hood moulding with a crowned cartouche at centre. At the centre is a small door with a square fanlight above and on the right is a remissa door, probably having been the coach room.

At first floor is a window set within a heavy frame, and a small wooden balcony supported on two heavily sculpted corbels. The second floor has an identical window with hood mouldings above and a larger wooden balcony, both directly above the others. The corner of this building is characterised by a wide pilaster joining the floors from ground to roof. The façade on St Ursula Street is on a slope and there are a number of small doorways at semi-basement level which were converted to small tenements and possibly include some rooms at first floor.

At first floor are a number of windows, one of which is walled up and a small wooden balcony, while at second floor two of the windows were converted into a closed wooden balcony and another is open with wrought iron railings. There are four elongated windows at the second floor, each with louvered shutters and with hood mouldings above. A shallow cornice runs along both façades at roof level below the parapet.

Mepa scheduled Nos. 175, 176, St Ursula Street c/w St Christopher as a Grade 1 national monument as per Government Notice No. 276/08 in the Government Gazette dated March 28, 2008.

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