Colwyn Chambers
24-30, MOSLEY STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197929
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Colwyn Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- 24-30, MOSLEY STREET
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-12-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/11408/06
- Rights:
- © Mr John Riley. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197929
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Colwyn Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24-30, MOSLEY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- COLWYN CHAMBERS, 17 AND 19, YORK STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 24-30, MOSLEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- COLWYN CHAMBERS, 17 AND 19, YORK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84184 98241
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW MOSLEY STREET 698-1/28/238 (West side) 25/04/85 Nos.24 TO 30 (Even) Colwyn Chambers (17 and 19 York Street)
GV II
Includes: Nos.17 AND 19 YORK STREET. Formerly headquarters of Lancashire Mercantile Bank, now variously occupied by shops, restaurant and offices. 1898, by J.Gibbon Sankey; altered. Portland stone with polished granite to ground floor, slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site, with chamfered corners. Neo-Baroque style. Four storeys and 3 principal bays to both facades, plus the corners; with high ground floor of channelled rustication, 3-bay giant Ionic colonnades in antis to 1st and 2nd floors, very prominent enriched cornice to 3rd floor, 3-sided corners carried up to domed octagonal turrets, the angles pilastered and finished with volutes to the set-back lanterns. The corner entrances are round-headed, and have elaborate architraves including pairs of Ionic columns with crouching atlantes on top supporting open segmental pediments, and outer security gates with decorative Art Nouveau ironwork. The windows at ground are mostly altered; those to the upper floors of the 3 main bays have 3 lights at 1st and 2nd floors, 4 lights at 3rd floor, those at the corners are 1-light; and at the right-hand end of the Mosley Street facade is one bay which has a square-headed doorway at ground floor, 2-light windows to the upper floors in a segmental-arched recess, and a segmental cornice. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8418498241
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388327
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 12-Jun-2026 at 16:30:11.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.