Colwyn Chambers

Colwyn Chambers, located at 24 to 30 Mosley Street and including 17 and 19 York Street in Manchester, was built in 1898 by J. Gibbon Sankey. Originally the headquarters of the Lancashire Mercantile Bank, it now houses various shops, a restaurant, and offices. The building is constructed of Portland stone with polished granite on the ground floor and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan on an end-of-block site with chamfered corners and is designed in a Neo-Baroque style.

The structure rises four storeys and has three principal bays on both facades, along with corner features. The high ground floor showcases channelled rustication, while the first and second floors are adorned with three-bay giant Ionic colonnades in antis. A prominent enriched cornice crowns the third floor, and the corners are accentuated with three-sided features that rise to domed octagonal turrets, with pilasters at the angles and volutes supporting the set-back lanterns.

The corner entrances are round-headed and embellished with elaborate architraves that include pairs of Ionic columns topped with crouching atlantes, which support open segmental pediments. The entrances also feature outer security gates with decorative Art Nouveau ironwork. While the ground floor windows have mostly been altered, the upper floors of the three main bays contain three-light windows on the first and second floors, and four-light windows on the third floor. The corner windows are single-light, and at the right-hand end of the Mosley Street facade, there is a bay with a square-headed doorway on the ground floor, two-light windows above in a segmental-arched recess, and a segmental cornice. The interior has not been inspected.