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Colwyn Chambers

A Grade II Listed Building in City Centre, Manchester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4807 / 53°28'50"N

Longitude: -2.2398 / 2°14'23"W

OS Eastings: 384184

OS Northings: 398241

OS Grid: SJ841982

Mapcode National: GBR DKH.P8

Mapcode Global: WHB9G.KSN1

Plus Code: 9C5VFQJ6+73

Entry Name: Colwyn Chambers

Listing Date: 25 April 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1197929

English Heritage Legacy ID: 388327

Also known as: 24-30 Mosley Street

ID on this website: 101197929

Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2

County: Manchester

Electoral Ward/Division: City Centre

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Manchester

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Manchester St Ann

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

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Description


MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW MOSLEY STREET 698-1/28/238 (West side) 25/04/85 Nos.24 TO 30 (Even) Colwyn Chambers (17 and 19 York Street)

GV II

Includes: Nos.17 AND 19 YORK STREET. Formerly headquarters of Lancashire Mercantile Bank, now variously occupied by shops, restaurant and offices. 1898, by J.Gibbon Sankey; altered. Portland stone with polished granite to ground floor, slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site, with chamfered corners. Neo-Baroque style. Four storeys and 3 principal bays to both facades, plus the corners; with high ground floor of channelled rustication, 3-bay giant Ionic colonnades in antis to 1st and 2nd floors, very prominent enriched cornice to 3rd floor, 3-sided corners carried up to domed octagonal turrets, the angles pilastered and finished with volutes to the set-back lanterns. The corner entrances are round-headed, and have elaborate architraves including pairs of Ionic columns with crouching atlantes on top supporting open segmental pediments, and outer security gates with decorative Art Nouveau ironwork. The windows at ground are mostly altered; those to the upper floors of the 3 main bays have 3 lights at 1st and 2nd floors, 4 lights at 3rd floor, those at the corners are 1-light; and at the right-hand end of the Mosley Street facade is one bay which has a square-headed doorway at ground floor, 2-light windows to the upper floors in a segmental-arched recess, and a segmental cornice. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8418498241

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