Numbers 2, 4, 6 And Right 3 Bays Of 8

SJ 7688 SE 11/10

ALTRINCHAM KINGSWAY (south side)

Nos. 2, 4, 6 and right 3 bays of 8

G.V. II

Shops and offices. Dated 1870. Red sandstone, rock-faced and ashlar with slate roof and brick rear. 11 bays, 3 storeys with shops on ground floor and offices above. Victorian Gothic. Enriched first floor sill band, coped modillion eaves parapet. Arcaded ground floor formerly with barley sugar Y-tracery to the shop fronts, now only existing to bay 6. Bays 1, 2 and 3 have been drastically re-faced in brick. Arcade columns have moulded bases and capitals and pilasters separate bays 3 and 4, and 8 and 9 which run up the entire building. Each 3 bays on first floor have 4 lancet lights the centre 2 being coupled with plate tracery and under hoodmoulds with enriched stops. The second floor windows which follow a similar pattern have shouldered heads, the paired ones under corbelled gablets which break through the eaves parapet.

Listing NGR: SJ7680288032