Winters Buildings

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE ST ANN STREET 698-1/27/382 (South side) Nos.28 TO 32 (Even) Winters Buildings

GV II

Includes: No.1 ST ANN'S CHURCHYARD. Grocer's shop, cafe and offices, now shops and offices. 1901, by J.W.Beaumont. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of grey granite at ground floor, red brick with buff terracotta above, slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered corner. Eclectic style with Elizabethan features, and some Art Nouveau decoration. Four storeys and attics, 4 bays plus the corner; with chamfered pilasters and octagonal corner tourelles, frieze over ground floor, band of moulded terracotta panels over 1st floor, plain brick band over 2nd floor, dentilled cornice, brick parapet and gabled dormers to the attic. Wide segmental-headed doorway to 3rd bay, segmental-headed window to corner, and C20 shop windows; 2- and 3-light mullioned windows with terracotta surrounds, including canted oriel at 2nd floor of 1st bay, canted 2-storey oriel over doorway, pairs of 2-light windows to 3rd floor and dormers over 1st and 3rd bays; 2-light windows on all upper floors of corner including attic dormer which has shaped gable with moulded terracotta decoration including "WINTERS BUILDINGS". Tall clustered chimneys. Right-hand return wall, 3 bays in matching style, with 2-storey canted oriels in all bays, then No.1 St Ann's Churchyard, 4 bays in simpler style; and wide segmental-headed windows at ground floor of the whole of this range, with Art Nouveau enrichments.

Listing NGR: SJ8382298342