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Latitude: 53.4821 / 53°28'55"N
Longitude: -2.2339 / 2°14'2"W
OS Eastings: 384574
OS Northings: 398405
OS Grid: SJ845984
Mapcode National: GBR DLG.ZR
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.NQFW
Plus Code: 9C5VFQJ8+VC
Entry Name: Watts Brothers
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1200803
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388270
ID on this website: 101200803
Location: Ancoats, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: City Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester Cathedral
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
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MANCHESTER
SJ8498SE LEVER STREET
698-1/29/206 (South East side)
No.24
Watts Bros.
GV II
Hardware and furniture warehouse, now offices. Dated 1898 at
3rd floor; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with red
sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan at
right-angles to street, with loading bay at rear. Free
Elizabethan style. Basement, 4 storeys and attic, 4 bays, with
plinth, cornice over ground floor, slightly-projected outer
bays with tall shaped gables, and chamfered shafts piercing a
prominent cornice. The ground floor has a large round-headed
doorway to the left, with convex jambs, moulded head and
keystone cartouche lettered "24", and a prominent cornice on
elongated consoles; a mullioned 2-light window to the right
over a basement doorway and 2 altered windows further right.
On the upper floors the 2 centre bays have 3-storey
elliptical-headed arches with 3-light wndows to all floors,
the outer bays have vertical-rectangular windows, with
panelled aprons at 2nd floor and large carved aprons at 3rd
floor lettered respectively "18" and "98". The attic has
3-light mullioned windows in the centre bays and vertical
windows in the gables with ornamental architraves including
oculi in steeply-swept gables finished with small segmental
pediments. The right-hand return wall has 2 bays in matching
style, continued with an 8-window range of white glazed brick,
carried down to 2 storeys at the rear, which has a parallel
loading bay. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8457498405
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