Partington Theatre

Partington Theatre, originally a liberal club, was built in 1914 by Paul Ogden. It features ashlar stone with ashlar dressings and brick at the rear, topped with a stone slate roof. The building has end and ridge stacks with alternating plain and barley sugar shafts and is situated on a corner site.

The exterior is three stories tall with a basement. Most windows have moulded sill and lintel bands, and there is a cornice and arcaded parapet with ball finials and moulded sill bands on the main fronts. The entrance front on Henry Street is asymmetrical with four windows and topped by a large end stack set back behind the parapet. To the left, there is a recessed segment-headed doorway with double plank doors featuring ornate iron hinges, supported by two large console brackets that hold a balcony with a parapet. To the right of the doorway is a single light window with a transom, followed by two three-light cross mullion windows. Above, there are four cross mullion windows arranged in a pattern of three, one, three, and three, with the leftmost window having a balcony. At the top, there is a central round-headed niche in a moulded surround with a flat hood.

The Norfolk Square front has an irregular arrangement of seven three-light cross mullion windows, with the upper floor windows on the right being taller. The basement level has an off-centre doorway with double plank doors and ornate iron hinges, flanked by two windows on the right and four on the left. Above this, there are five nine-pane cross mullion windows, with two smaller six-pane windows stacked one above the other on the right, leading to a corbelled balcony with an arcaded entrance and a canted hood. The top floor features seven tall twelve-pane cross mullion windows and two similar nine-pane windows on the right, with the front divided by a recessed downpipe with a hopper. The interior has not been inspected.