Lombard Chambers

Lombard Chambers is an office building constructed in the 1860s, designed in the Italian Gothic style. It is built of brick with stone dressings and features three storeys, a basement, and an attic. The building has five bays facing Bixteth Street and a three-bay return on Ormond Street.

The facade on Bixteth Street has a basement and ground floor that are banded with buff brick. It includes an applied pointed arcade with a hood mould that has stops shaped like twined animals, and the central arch is taller than the others. A string course is canted over the central arch. The basement windows have shouldered lintels, while the ground floor windows are designed with pointed arches. The first floor features a pointed attached arcade supported by stone columns, with segmental-headed windows that have brick herringbone tympana. The second floor has a sill band and two-light windows beneath pointed relieving arches, with iron centre shafts and round recesses in the tympana.

The attic is marked by a central gable that contains a window with five pointed lights and iron shafts, along with a balcony on brackets featuring iron railings. The building is adorned with a Lombard frieze and moulded coping, and it has flanking four-light corbelled-out windows. The return facade is more utilitarian, featuring a central entrance with a panel above that is lettered "LOMBARD CHAMBERS," and a two-light mullioned window above, all framed in a decorated architrave with a cornice.