Lombard Chambers

SJ 3490 NW ORMOND STREET L3

48/862 No 12 (Lombard - Chambers)

G.V. II

Office Building. 1860's. Brick with stone dressings. Italian Gothic style. 3 storeys, basement and attic, 5 bays to Bixteth Street and 3-bay return to Ormond Street. Bixteth St. facade: basement and ground floor banded with buff brick, applied pointed arcade has hood mould with stops in the form of twined animals, central arch higher than others. String course canted over central arch. Basement windows have shouldered lintels, ground floor windows have pointed arches. 1st floor pointed attached arcade with stone columns. Segmental-headed windows with brick herringbone tympana. 2nd floor sill band and 2-light windows under pointed relieving arches. Iron centre shafts, and round recesses in tympana. Attic has central gable with window of 5 pointed lights and iron shafts, balcony on brackets with iron railings. Lombard frieze and moulded coping. Flanking 4-light corbelled-out windows. Return facade utilitarian with central entrance with panel over, lettered "LOMBARD CHAMBERS". 2-light mullioned window above, all in decorated architrave with cornice.

Listing NGR: SJ3414090725