Registry Office

BURNLEY

SD8432SW GRIMSHAW STREET 906-1/20/61 (South West side) 29/09/77 No.9 Registry Office

GV II

Includes: No.12 NICHOLAS STREET. Bank, now Registry Office. 1864. By William Waddington. For the Manchester and County Bank; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, slate roof. Eclectic style with some Gothic detail. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site. 3 storeys over cellars, 3 wide bays; with a moulded plinth, rusticated quoins, a plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. The ground floor has a segmental-headed doorway to the left, with a pilastered architrave and moulded cornice, and a triple and 2 coupled pairs of recessed sashed windows, all with polished pink granite colonnettes which have sandstone capitals elaborately carved with foliage and birds (all different), moulded arched heads, hollow spandrels and prominent cornices (continuous over the 1st and 2nd windows). The upper floors have mullioned multiple-light windows, those at 1st floor all of 3 lights and those at 2nd floor 3, 4 and 3 lights, all with altered glazing. 2 ridge chimneys. The right-hand return wall (No.12 Nicholas Street) has a corner doorway with a heavily-bracketed cornice and 2 windows like those at the front, under a continuous cornice; the left return wall has a doorway and multiple-light windows in simpler style. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: William Waddington's 1st built design.

Listing NGR: SD8408732380