Description

SJ 3490 NW ORMOND STREET
L3

48/862 No 12
(Lombard
- Chambers)

G.V. II

Office Building. 1860's. Brick with stone dressings.
Italian Gothic style. 3 storeys, basement and attic, 5 bays
to Bixteth Street and 3-bay return to Ormond Street.
Bixteth St. facade: basement and ground floor banded with
buff brick, applied pointed arcade has hood mould with stops
in the form of twined animals, central arch higher than
others. String course canted over central arch. Basement
windows have shouldered lintels, ground floor windows have
pointed arches. 1st floor pointed attached arcade with
stone columns. Segmental-headed windows with brick
herringbone tympana. 2nd floor sill band and 2-light
windows under pointed relieving arches. Iron centre shafts,
and round recesses in tympana. Attic has central gable with
window of 5 pointed lights and iron shafts, balcony on
brackets with iron railings. Lombard frieze and moulded
coping. Flanking 4-light corbelled-out windows. Return
facade utilitarian with central entrance with panel over,
lettered "LOMBARD CHAMBERS". 2-light mullioned window
above, all in decorated architrave with cornice.

Listing NGR: SJ3414090725

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26324663

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