Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW CHARLOTTE STREET
698-1/28/46 (South side)
03/10/74 No.10
Charlotte House
(Formerly Listed as:
CHARLOTTE STREET
No.10
Charlotte House)
(Formerly Listed as:
GEORGE STREET
Nos.44, 46 AND 48)

GV II

Includes: Nos.44, 46 AND 48 GEORGE STREET.
Cotton merchants' warehouse, now offices. 1857, by Edward
Walters. Sandstone ashlar and light red brick with sandstone
dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan. Italian
palazzo style. Basement and 5 storeys (with 4-storey rear), a
9-window symmetrical facade, the ground floor treated as a
rustic, with rusticated rock-faced basement, ashlar ground
floor with cornice, quoined corners, sill- and head-bands to
the upper floors, and prominent modillioned cornice. The
ground floor has a central round-headed doorway in a
square-headed architrave with carved spandrels and a cornice,
and segmental-headed windows with keyed architraves. The
windows at 1st floor are segmental-headed with moulded
architraves, those at 2nd floor have architraves with
pediments, and those of the top 2 floors have simpler
surrounds, but with a raised rosette on a roundel over each at
3rd floor, and an emphatic sill-band to the 4th floor; and the
architraves of the 1st to 3rd floors are vertically linked.
The left return wall to George Street has 4 bays to the same
height, and a 9-bay continuation with 3 doorways but minus the
4th floor, all in matching style. Interior not inspected.
Forms part of a group of 5 similar buildings on this side of
the street, 4 by the same architect. Nos 44, 46 and 48 George
Street was added to the List 31/5/79.

Listing NGR: SJ8414998085

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492226

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