Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE DALE STREET
698-1/29/83 (East side)
No.35

GV II

Cotton manufacturer's warehouse, now wholesalers' premises.
c.1900, probably for Richard Howarth & Co, cotton spinners and
manufacturers. Steel columns and girders (cased), with
cladding of polished grey granite, red brick and pink
terracotta; roof concealed. Rectangular plan with chamfered
corners to the front and through loading bay at rear.
Simplified eclectic style with Elizabethan accent. Basement
and 6 storeys (the top 3 shallower), 4 bays between chamfered
corners, with a granite plinth, piers faced with banded
terracotta at ground floor and brick above, string-courses
between the floors including a modillioned cornice over the
3rd floor, and a parapet with upstands. The chamfered corners,
distinguished by banded semi-octagonal shafts beginning at 1st
floor and finishing in the parapet as domed pinnacles, each
have a doorway at ground floor, that to the left with a
corniced surround of polished granite and a recessed wooden
and glazed screen with panelled and glazed double doors which
have decorated brass furnishings and bevelled plate-glass; a
segmental oriel to the 2nd and 3rd floors with moulded corbel,
3-light sashed windows, and balustraded parapet; 2-light
sashed windows on the other floors; and a shaped and
pedimented gablet pierced by a festooned oculus. The 4-bay
front has 3-light windows on all floors, those at 1st floor
slightly canted, those at 2nd floor with bracketed cornices,
and all above ground floor framed by thin pilasters which form
vertical strips, continued on the upstands of the parapets.
The 5-bay sides are in matching style, and the rear end of
each has a loading entrance with cast-iron surround. The rear
has white glazed brick cladding and a well between short
wings. Interior not inspected. HISTORY: occupied in 1905 by
Richard Howarth & Co, cotton spinners and manufacturers.

Listing NGR: SJ8464498311

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504730

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