2-4 Windy Bank

Architectural Description from National Heritage List Text Entries, © Historic England 2021.

Pair of houses. 1902. By Grayson and Ould. Roughcast with brick, tile roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays; 1st 2 bays project under paired asymmetrical gables, with small hipped re- entrant block to right. Brick base and ground floor quoins. Windows have small-paned casements. Ground floor has 4-light canted bay windows with parapets to 1st 2 bays, 3-light window to end bay. 1st floor has 3-light windows, that to end bay in timbered gabled half-dormer. Entrances have flat canopies and small-paned lights. Cross-axial stack and projecting gable-end stack to right return. Decorative rainwater head. Rear similar, dormers, privies. Flanking brick screen walls of the 1920’s have end buttresses and central shell niches with raised coping over.

NOTE: The terrace and site plan shown in the attached drawings were demolished in the 1920’s to realign Windy Bank to provide a better view towards the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Nos 2-4 Windy Bank were redeveloped to designs by James Lomax Simpson. These drawings are still in copyright, so are not included in the online exhibition.