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

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings