London Scottish House - Windmill Street, Manchester, UK



Architect
Essex, Goodman & Suggitt
Date Built
1973
Location
Windmill Street & Mount Street
Description
London Scottish House occupies a site on Windmill Street between Mount Street and Museum Street.  It backs on to St. George's House, the former YMCA building.  It was built in 1973, by the architectural practice of Essex, Goodman & Suggitt, who were responsible for the conversion of Central Station into the G-Mex.  As the name suggests it used to be home to the London Scottish Bank.

London Scottish, which specialised in customers with poor credit histories, went into administration on December 1, 2008.  However, more than three months earlier the development company, the "Walls Group", had purchased the building for £20Million and, according to an article in the Manchester Evening News, dated August 21, 2007, they planned to demolish it and replace it with an "eye catching building".  Four years later London Scottish House is still in place.