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Latitude: 53.475 / 53°28'29"N
Longitude: -2.2363 / 2°14'10"W
OS Eastings: 384412
OS Northings: 397609
OS Grid: SJ844976
Mapcode National: GBR DLK.G9
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.MX9D
Plus Code: 9C5VFQF7+XF
Entry Name: Orient House
Listing Date: 20 June 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1200838
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388151
ID on this website: 101200838
Location: City Centre, 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 St Ann
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
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MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW GRANBY ROW
698-1/32/145 (South side)
20/06/88 Nos.65 AND 67
Orient House
GV II
Shipping or packing warehouse. 1914, by G.H.Goldsmith. Steel
frame with facade of white matt-glazed terracotta and sides of
rectilinear glass curtain walling, roof concealed. Large
rectangular plan parallel to street. Classical style facade to
otherwise strictly functional building. Nine storeys over
basement, but the facade of 6 storeys with attics, a
symmetrical composition of 1:7:1 bays, the ends breaking
forwards slightly, the ground and 1st floors treated as a
rustic, with channelled rustication and cornices to both
levels, the next 3 storeys as a 7-bay giant colonnade, with
fluted Ionic columns and pilastered end bays, an enriched
frieze over the colonnade and a low 5th floor with very
prominent modillioned cornice and various forms of enrichment;
full attic storeys to the ends, set-back attics over the
centre, and tall chimneys. Entrances in the 3rd and 7th bays,
both with projected doorcases which have shallow pediments on
consoles, and acroteria on the pediments; 3-light windows to
all floors, those in the end bays mostly with mullions and
cornices, and those in the colonnade steel framed, and canted
in the first 2 levels. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8441297609
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