Onward Buildings

Onward Buildings is a former Band of Hope building, now used as shops and offices, constructed between 1903 and 1905 by architect Charles Heathcote. The building is made of red brick with yellow terracotta dressings and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan oriented at right angles to the street, with rounded corners and is designed in a Free Baroque style.

The facade is four stories high and has five windows, arranged symmetrically. The ground and third floors are banded, and there is a prominent bracketed cornice above. The hipped roof is adorned with banded chimneys on the front and sides. The ground floor features a central round-headed entrance arch with a cavetto surround and a keystone decorated with foliation, a mask, and raised lettering that reads "BAND OF HOPE." Above the arch is a curved balcony with wrought-iron railings, flanked by wide segmental-headed windows.

The first and second floors have cross-windows, with the first-floor windows being taller and featuring eared architraves and triple keystones, while the second-floor windows have shouldered architraves and single keystones. The third floor includes keyed oculi, and above the cornice, there is a flat-roofed dormer situated between the chimneys. The corners of the building are chamfered at the ground floor and curved above, with similar windows on the first and second floors, and the applied lettering "ONWARD BUILDINGS" is positioned between these windows. The returned sides of the building are similar but simpler.

The interior reportedly contains a meeting hall with plaques or tiles from Lancashire Temperance Societies. This building was constructed for the federation of Temperance Societies.