Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398NE CATEATON STREET 698-1/26/40 (North side) 20/06/88 No.14 Mynshull's House

GV II

Offices over shop. Dated 1890; by William Ball and Thomas Brookes Elce, with carvings by J.Jarvis Millson; altered slightly at ground floor. Red sandstone with some moulded terracotta in matching colour; roof concealed. Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street, occupying part of island site with one side to passage known as Hanging Bridge. Jacobean style. Three low storeys and one bay; carved consoles to moulded frieze over ground floor; central segmental bow above this with 6-light mullioned windows flanked by pairs of small Ionic pilasters, a wide lettered cartouche on the bowed panel between the windows, cornices over both floors, and a large bowed upstand with terracotta foliation, frieze lettered "MYNSHULL'S HOUSE" and Jacobean-style strap-work cresting with obelisk finials, flanked by lions with shields on lettered pedestals. Return side similar but simpler.

Listing NGR: SJ8385098688

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)