Brunner Guildhall

Brunner Guildhall is a guildhall dating to 1899, built in red English garden wall bond brick with terra-cotta dressings and a slate roof. It was presented to the Winsford Urban District Council by Sir John Tomlinson Brunner, Baronet, for the use of trade and friendly societies, and was opened on 4 November 1899. The building is of Flemish Gothic style.

The front has eight bays arranged nearly symmetrically, with pairs of gables above the two central bays and those to either side. The two central ground floor entrances have basket arches; the right-hand entrance contains double doors, and the left-hand entrance a window with two basket-arched lights and a pink granite datestone. The datestone commemorates the building's presentation and names Edwin Hamlett and John Henry Cooke as Chairman and Clerk of the Council respectively, and records the resolution of 15 September 1898 by which the building was named Brunner Guildhall at the direction of William Stubbs, Chairman of the Council. The ground floor windows to either side of the centre have ogee heads and terra-cotta surrounds. The first floor windows are cross-windows with ogee heads to the upper lights and ovolo moulded terra-cotta surrounds, and fuller windows with mullions and two transoms. Decorative vertical strips of terra-cotta run between these windows to the apexes of the gables, which have ovolo moulded terra-cotta coping with angled finials. To the far left and right are three-light windows on both floors. The right-hand gable end is shaped and features five of the canted terra-cotta vertical strips. It has a three-light ground floor window and a taller first floor window, both with transoms. The left-hand gable end is similar, with a two-light ground floor window to the left. The rear has a central projecting gabled staircase wing with a single mezzanine window of four lights and a cambered relieving arch. Ground and first floor windows are three-light. To the far right is an outshut with a two-light window and hipped roof, and to the left is a second, later lean-to outshut.