Arlington House

SALFORD

SJ8398NW BLOOM STREET 949-1/20/11 (North East side) 18/01/80 Arlington House (Formerly Listed as: BLOOM STREET Former Gas Board Offices)

GV II

Offices. 1880. Probably by Thomas Worthington. Red brick with stone dressings. Steep Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks to gables. Additional stack to right hand side of central tower. U-shaped plan in High Gothic style with central entrance below tower. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic. Symmetrically planned with 4-window range each side of central tower. Outer bays slightly advanced, terminating in pyramidal roofs. Ground floor has central doorway with semicircular head and squat engaged granite pilasters with foliate capital. Flanking ranges each have 4 semicircular stone headed sash windows linked by enriched stone string course, and stone sills. Stone plinth. First-floor windows with shallow segmental-arched stone heads, stone sills and hoodmoulds forming continuous band. Projecting oriel in tower, with paired pointed blind windows divided by granite shaft, stone corbelling with gargoyles, and parapet. Corbelled brick eaves cornice with 3 enriched stone gabled dormers with poppy head finials each side of tower. Upper stage of tower has Gothic 2-light window, arrow loops and stone machicolated parapet with bartizans. Steep truncated pyramidal slate roof with iron brattishing and flag pole. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8311998656