Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/337 (North East side)
No.83

GV II

Home trade warehouse, now shops and offices. c.1847-8, by
Travis and Mangnall; altered. Sandstone ashlar ground floor,
red brick with sandstone dressings above (roof not visible).
Shallow rectangular plan parallel to street, on end-of-block
site. Four storeys over high basement, 9 bays; cornice to
ground floor, stone quoins and brick pilasters to the upper
floors, sill-bands to 2nd and 3rd floors, moulded stone
cornice with short square chimneys. Basement and ground floor
treated as tall arcade of round-headed arches, with moulded
impost band to the piers, arches with stepped voussoirs and
set-in reveals which have imposts and volute keystones, the
3rd bay containing a doorway and the other bays divided
equally between basement and ground floor windows. Large
round-headed windows at 1st and 2nd floors, with keystones and
linking impost bands; pairs af small round-headed windows at
3rd floor, also with keystones. Glazing altered. Left return
wall (to George Street), 3 bays in similar style, but with one
central arch to ground floor flanked by doorways under square
overlights. Right-hand return wall mostly blind, with small
inserted cloakroom windows. Forms group with Nos 39 and 41
George Street (q.v.), which is attached to rear.

Listing NGR: SJ8410297964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560918

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)