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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492223

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)