22 And 24, Nicholas Street

BURNLEY

SD8432SW NICHOLAS STREET 906-1/20/103 (East side) 29/09/77 Nos.22 AND 24 (Formerly Listed as: NICHOLAS STREET (East side) Nos.18-24 (Even))

GV II

Hotel and warehouse, now part of council offices. 1869. By William Waddington. For the Oddfellows Club; altered. Rock-faced sandstone with freestone dressings and hipped slate roof. Florentine style. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site. 3 storeys over a basement, 6 bays; with a chamfered plinth, string courses between the floors, 3 freestone bands to each floor, and a bracketed eaves cornice. The principal doorway, in the 5th bay, has an elaborate architrave with a cornice on large consoles, and panelled double doors with an overlight; and in the 1st bay there is a smaller and simpler doorway in similar style but without a cornice. The windows, which are all sashed, are square-headed at ground floor and 2nd floor, segmental-headed at 1st floor with panelled aprons; the 2nd, 3rd and 6th bays have coupled windows, those at 1st and 2nd floors with red sandstone colonnettes which have carved foliated caps. The south facade (to Elizabeth Street) is 4 bays in similar style, with coupled windows in the 1st and 4th bays and a round-headed doorway in the 2nd bay altered as a window. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms a group with Nos 18 & 20 to the left (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8406132348