28 and 30 Mosley Street (Maranar House)

Offices and shops. 1894 by Armstrong and Knowles for Alderman Stout. Left shop
1902 by Watson and Curry. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 3 bays.
Rusticated pilasters flank central office door; similar pilasters flank wide arch
in left bay, with many keys, over window with moulded sill; right bay altered.
Ground floor entablature. Giant Ionic Order above defines shallow canted bays,
and narrower central recessed bay containing single window on each floor, all
sashes with upper glazing bars whose keyed central cornices rise into main
entablature on second floor. Top floor has mannered, squat Ionic Order with block
rustication to paired columns flanking mullioned-and-transomed keyed elliptical-
headed windows. Top entablature has pulvinated frieze with brackets above each
window and pair of columns. Tall corniced end chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2