Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE DALE STREET
698-1/29/86 (East side)
17/09/92 Nos.49 AND 51

GV II

Includes: Nos.30 AND 32 HILTON STREET.
Home trade warehouses, various. c.1900. Iron frame with
cladding of red brick and matching terracotta, and some
sandstone dressings, with slate roof to the front and flat
asphalted roof over the rest. Irregular U-plan formed by a
long rectangular range between Dale Street at the front and
Hilton Street at the rear, a range parallel to Hilton Street
bridging Lizard Street, and a wing to this returned along
Tariff Street. Basement and 5 storeys (except range along
China Lane, which is 4 storeys). The shallow front office
block, symmetrical, 3 bays between chamfered corners, has
pilasters to the narrower centre bay finished as chimneys on
the parapet, string courses above and below the 2nd floor, a
cornice and parapet over the top floor; mullioned windows of 2
lights in the centre and 3 lights in the outer bays, all
sashed and those of the top 3 floors shorter; round-headed
doorways in the corners (that to the right altered as a
window), with keystones and cornices on brackets, and sashed
windows on each floor above (those at 1st and 2nd floor in
narrow rectangular oriels). The short return walls have
chimneys corbelled from the 1st floor. The 4-storey rear range
has coupled sashed windows in the front half, and an
iron-framed rear section with 2 loading slots and 6-light
casement windows. The rear range (to Tariff Street) is 4
storeys plus attic, 10 bays, and has, inter alia, 3 pairs of
elliptical-arched bays (those in the centre bridging the entry
to Lizard Street), a prominent cornice on corbelled shafts,
and large attic windows under a cornice with shaped parapet.
The return side to Tariff Street is 8 bays in matching style.
Interior: cast-iron columns, wrought-iron girders, wooden
beams. History: in 1905 No.49 occupied by Wm.O'Hanlon & Co,
merchants, No.51 by Wm Holt & Sons, manufacturers; all now
occupied by O'Hanlon.

Listing NGR: SJ8470098279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580495

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