Winters Buildings

Winters Buildings is a Grade II listed structure located on St Ann Street in Manchester. Built in 1901 by J.W. Beaumont, it originally housed a grocer's shop, café, and offices, and now serves as shops and offices. The building is likely iron-framed and features grey granite cladding at the ground floor, with red brick and buff terracotta above, topped by a slate roof.

The building has a rectangular plan on a corner site, characterized by a chamfered corner. It showcases an eclectic architectural style that incorporates Elizabethan elements and some Art Nouveau decoration. The structure rises four storeys with attics and consists of four bays plus the corner. Notable features include chamfered pilasters, octagonal corner turrets, a frieze above the ground floor, a band of moulded terracotta panels over the first floor, a plain brick band over the second floor, a dentilled cornice, a brick parapet, and gabled dormers in the attic.

The third bay contains a wide segmental-headed doorway, while the corner features a segmental-headed window. There are 20th-century shop windows, and the upper floors display 2- and 3-light mullioned windows with terracotta surrounds. This includes a canted oriel window at the second floor of the first bay and a canted two-storey oriel above the doorway. The third floor features pairs of 2-light windows, and the attic dormer has a shaped gable with moulded terracotta decoration that includes the name "WINTERS BUILDINGS." The building is topped with tall clustered chimneys.

The right-hand return wall has three bays designed in a matching style, each with two-storey canted oriels. This is followed by No. 1 St Ann's Churchyard, which has four bays in a simpler style, featuring wide segmental-headed windows at the ground floor adorned with Art Nouveau embellishments.