Digital image of Pender Street Electricity Substation, the former City of Northcote electricity substation is a brick pavilion in the Moderne style. The substation has a raised central section, which has a small hipped roof and sides clad in weatherboards. The east elevation, which faces down Pender Street has a circular insignia with what is most probably the former City of Northcote emblem. Below this, recessed into the wall, is a drinking fountain.