Danchen House has historic significance as an example of the late Victorian Warehouse style, at least the top section of which was designed by Kent Budden & Greenwell who were among the pioneers of the style. The facade has aesthetic significance as a prominent presence on the street corner. The building at Kent St (on the corner of Liverpool Street), formerly known as Danchen House, is a six storey former warehouse with a facade of load bearing polychrome brickwork intricately detailed to form dentilling at parapet level and recessed bays below the top floor within which are grouped single arched windows. Horizontal brick string courses at floor and sill levels, and the curving of the wall at the corner with consequent double curvature of arches to openings, provide further visual interest. The facade appears to be in excellent condition although windows have been replaced with aluminium and new glazed walls at ground floor level have been set back behind the original facade to produce a colonnade. Behind the facade the remainder of the building is completely modern, with reinforced concrete structure and floors, steel framed roof and new services and finishes.The building formerly had timber windows, those on the curved corner wall being themselves curved in plan. Intrusive Elements:Treatment of the street level of the facade as a colonnade.The building is a physical record of warehouse development in the western sector of Sydney in the late nineteenth century.
