Numbers 25 And 27 Including Wall And Railings

BOLTON

SD7109SE 797-1/17/149 23/03/99

MAWDSLEY STREET (East side) Nos.25 AND 27 including wall and railings

GV II

Offices, including former Constitutional Club, and originally known as Bradford Buildings, now night club (ground floor) and offices. c1870. George Woodhouse, architect. Red brick with blue brick and stone dressings, graded slate steeply pitched roof. Venetian Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, asymmetrically planned with No.25 forming separately roofed block to the right, a 4-window range. Arcaded windows on each floor, with banded heads, and trefoiled lights to first floor. Doorway to left. No.27 forms a 5-window range to the right, itself symmetrically planned with gablets over outer bays, and central entrance. Sash windows to ground floor, with flat stone heads, and stilted arched arcaded windows above, with central shafts dividing them. Depressed arched heads to basement windows. Sexfoiled lights in gablets. Modillion eaves cornice. Gothic detailing is continued in the rear elevation, which includes a white glazed brick courtyard. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURE: wrought-iron railings on chamfered stone plinth wall, with cast-iron lantern bases each side of steps to No.27. (The Builder, 7 June 1873; Bolton Chronicle, 8 September 1883).

Listing NGR: SD7177009046