Burnley Building Society Burnley Building Society Offices

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SD8432SW PARKER LANE 906-1/20/116 (West side) No.19 Burnley Building Society Offices

GV II

Includes: No.12 Burnley Building Society GRIMSHAW STREET. Building Society offices, now council offices. 1927-30. By Briggs and Thornley of Liverpool. Probably steel-framed, with cladding of sandstone ashlar (roof concealed but probably slate). Modernist classical style. Rectangular plan on corner site. 2 storeys over basement with a long 3:5:3-bay east facade to Parker Lane and a narrow 5-bay south facade to Grimshaw Street. The latter is framed by a plinth, pilasters, a Greek key band and a high panelled parapet, and has a set-in giant colonnade of fluted columns with composite caps including volutes and anthemions, a large central doorway (altered as a window) with a raised enriched architrave under a dentilled cornice on consoles, tall 24-pane windows at ground floor with projected aprons and metal-framed glazing with tilting casement openings at the tops, and shorter 20-pane windows at 1st floor with similar glazing. The east facade to Parker Lane has a wide centre in similar style but with fluted pilasters rather than semi-columns, and without the doorway; and doorways in the outer bays (that to the left altered as a window) with moulded architraves and cornices on consoles; and the centre of the parapet is inscribed "BURNLEY BUILDING SOCIETY". At the north end is a later extension. INTERIOR altered. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD8414232414