Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE ST ANN STREET
698-1/27/381 (North side)
25/02/52 No.25
(Formerly Listed as:
ST ANN STREET
(North side)
Williams and Glyn's Bank)

GV II*

Bank, with attached manager's house. 1848, by J.E.Gregan, for
Benjamin Heywood's Bank. Sandstone ashlar, and red brick with
sandstone dressings, hipped slate roofs. Tripartite plan with
bank on corner of St Ann's Square, entrance bay in centre and
former manager's house to right. Italian palazzo style. The
bank, 3 storeys, and 3x1 bays plus chamfered corner, has a
plinth, rusticated quoins, rusticated ground floor with raised
rusticated surrounds to large round-headed arches which
contain Venetian windows with Ionic colonnettes and are linked
by a moulded impost band; sashed windows to both upper floors,
those in the centre tripartite, those at 1st floor with
pedimented Corinthian architraves and balustraded balconies
linked by a moulded sill-band, and those at 2nd floor with
enriched architraves linked by a similar band; and a prominent
dentilled and modillioned cornice. The corner has a carved
shield at ground floor, and windows on the upper floors like
those at the front; and the left return has tripartite windows
on all floors, those at ground floor forming an arcade. The
entrance bay has a single-storey porch with a round-headed
doorway (the lintel lettered "BANK") with emphatic run-out
voussoirs, and a balustraded parapet. The house to the right,
3 storeys and 4 bays, has a plinth, very emphatic rusticated
quoins to the corners and surrounding a round-headed doorway
to the 3rd bay, a cornice to the ground floor and moulded
sill-band to the 2nd floor, a plain brick frieze and prominent
modillioned cornice; and sashed windows with moulded
architraves, those at 1st floor with panelled aprons and
moulded cornices. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8382498381

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 25 St Ann Street at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4632181

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