Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 HIGH STREET
698-1/17/161 (North side)
15/03/89 Nos.75 AND 77
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET, SMITHFIELD
Nos.75-77 (Odd))

GV II

Probably a wholesale garment warehouse. c.1860-70. Iron frame,
with cladding of sandstone ashlar and red brick, dressings of
polished granite and red and yellow sandstone (roof
concealed). Trapeziform plan on end-of-block site. Venetian
Gothic style. Four storeys, three and a half bays (half-bay to
left) plus rounded corner to the right; panelled-pilaster
piers to ground floor with large moulded brackets to dentilled
cornice, similar piers and cornice to 1st floor, short stone
piers to 2nd floor, sill- and impost bands to 3rd floor,
prominent bracketed eaves cornice. The ground floor has a
round-headed doorway to the left with pilaster jambs and
elaborate enrichment to the head, a similar round-headed
doorway to the right-hand corner, with shafts of polished
granite and heavily foliated caps, and C20 shop windows in the
3 main bays. The 1st floor, of stone, has arcaded fenestration
with 4 round-headed sashed windows in each full bay and 2 to
the left, slender shafts with foliated caps between the lights
and spherical roundels in the spandrels; the 2nd and 3rd
floors have arcaded 3-light sashes, those at 2nd floor with
round-headed lights, polished shafts with foliated caps and
banded 2-centred extradose, and those at 3rd floor
segmental-headed with linked segmental hoodmoulds. Right-hand
side to Thomas Street, 2 bays in matching style. Interior not
inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8432598666

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496583

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)