Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW HARTER STREET
698-1/32/159 (West side)
No.2

GV II

Paper warehouse, now offices. Late C19; altered. Red brick
with sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Trapeziform plan.
Four storeys and 4 bays (2 windows in each bay), with basement
and attic; stone plinth, prominent stone cornices over ground
and 3rd floors, giant arcades to upper floors, attic storey
treated as high parapet; banded ground floor with pedimented
former doorway at left end now reduced to window, window to
right with doorway inserted beneath it, pairs of windows
further to the right, all these windows sashed and with keyed
heads flanked by pendents from the cornice; arcaded upper
floors have pilasters with swags to the capitals, and keyed
round-headed arches at 3rd floor, pairs of sashed windows
without glazing bars at 1st and 2nd floors, large
semi-circular windows at 3rd floor with small panes in the
heads; arcaded 3-light sashed windows to the attic. Left
return wall similar. Rear (to former canal basin) and interior
not inspected. Forms group with No.12 to south.

Listing NGR: SJ8415297789

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496606

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version