Endsleigh Insurance Imperial Chambers

BURNLEY

SD8432SW MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/20/80 (South East side) No.32 Endsleigh Insurance

GV II

Includes: No.2 Imperial Chambers GRIMSHAW STREET. Bank, now offices. 1894. By William Waddington, for the Union Bank; recently altered and restored. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Jacobean style. Rectangular plan on corner site, with a splayed corner to Grimshaw Street. 3 storeys plus basement and attic, 3 windows plus a 2-window corner; with sillbands, a strapwork frieze and dentilled cornice to the ground floor, panelled friezes to the upper floors, a cornice over the 2nd floor, and an attic storey with enriched semicircular gablets over the windows, with ball finials, and a more elaborate feature over the corner. The corner has a round-headed doorway with panelled pilasters and carved extrados with monogrammed keystone ("UB"), coupled windows at 1st floor with a colonnetted Jacobean-style architrave including carved triangular cresting and ball finials, a tripartite window at 2nd floor, and a pilastered shaped gable with a central window. The 3-window facade to Manchester Road has recessed windows at ground and 1st floor set behind colonnades, that at ground floor with arched openings. The Grimshaw Street facade, of 3:2:3 windows, repeats this design twice, separated by 2 windows in matching style. C20 glazing in all windows. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8407032455