Guardian Assurance Buildings

SJ 3490 NW DALE STREET (north side) L2

48/352 No. 35 (Guardian Assurance - Buildings)

G.V. II

Office building. 1890's. Stone with yellow brick to left hand return. 3 storeys with basement and attic, 1 bay and corner turret to left, 3-bay return. Ground floor has mullioned and transomed window with entrance to right which has flanking Corinthian flat pilasters on plinths. Inscription over door heads "GUARDIAN ASSURANCE BUILDING". Bull's eye window over with flanking cherubs and foliage and surmounted by a segmental pediment. Doors with 3 panels; stained glass window to bull's eye. Frieze with cartouche flanked by cherubs holding ribbons. Corner has 1:2:1 windows with basement entrance under, corner turret corbelled out above. 1st floor window 1:2:1 with elliptical heads and transoms, rich cornice over. Similar windows to turret, which has corbelled polygonal pilasters. 2nd floor window of 6 round-headed lights with shafts and capitals. Turret has similar window with arcarded panels under. Cornice with strapwork panels over. Gable has paired windows with pilasters and cornice. Framed cartouche with scrolls and finial over, at top of gable. Turret has round arcading between pinnacles and short copper spire. Yellow brick end stacks with stone caps. Left return utilitarian. (Right return is party wall, exposed in 1984).

Listing NGR: SJ3434290587