Ormond Building, Manchester Metropolitan University (Formerly municipal offices)

MANCHESTER

SJ8497 LOWER ORMOND STREET 698-1/20/600 (West side) 03/10/74 Chorlton-On-Medlock Ormond Building, Manchester Metropolitan University (Formerly municipal offices)

GV II

(Formerly Listed as Ormond Building, Manchester Polytechnic (formerly Municipal Offices)) (Formerly Listed as LOWER ORMOND STREET (West side) Chorlton-On-Medlock Former Municipal Offices (Manchester Polytechnic))

Chorlton Union Offices, in use as premises of Manchester Polytechnic at the time of listing. 1880, by Mangnall and Littlewood; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Rectangular plan on corner site. Two storeys over basement, facades of 3:5:1 windows to Lower Ormond Street and 2:5:1 windows to Cavendish Street, hinged on an octagonal corner turret; with a band over the basement windows, sill-bands to both floors, string-course over ground floor, pilasters at the junctions, brick corbel tables, moulded stone cornices and brick parapets (part balustraded). The corner block has a symmetrical 3-bay facade to Lower Ormond Street, including a segmental-headed doorway which has an elaborate stone architrave and divided panelled doors (up 4 steps), round-headed 2-light windows at ground floor with shafts, round-headed lights and moulded stone heads with mask keystones, round-headed sashes at 1st floor with corniced architraves, and a balustraded parapet with pedimented panel in the centre and urn finials. Its corner turret to the left, of rusticated stone and panelled ashlar at ground floor, has 2 narrow sashes and a central cartouche, a gadrooned and dentilled cornice, above this a 3-sided oriel with narrow sashed windows in corniced architraves, and an octagonal turret with a small round-headed window and a pediment to each side, and a domed roof with a lantern. The 2-bay left return is similar, but with a tall segmental-pedimented pair of chimneys rising from the parapet. The outer ranges of both facades are similar but slightly lower and simpler, and the end bays have tripartite windows to 1st floor and pedimented attics. Various paired chimneys, coupled to form arches, with cornices.

Listing NGR: SJ8422297028