Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW BLOOM STREET
698-1/32/18 (South East side)
No.11

GV II

Various warehouses and pattern card factory, now various
offices. Mid to later C19, altered (renovation in progress at
time of survey). Some sandstone ashlar but mostly red brick in
Flemish bond with sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Square
plan including through loading bay at left side. Basement and
4 storeys, 8-window facade with channelled corner pilasters.
The ground floor, of sandstone ashlar, has a round-headed
doorway to the right with keyed moulded surround and dentilled
cornice, a rectangular loading entrance at the left end with
channelled surround, and between these almost continuous
fenestration behind an unusual colonnaded screen of square
columns with a plain frieze and moulded cornice; the upper
floors have sashed windows, those at 1st floor with
triangular-headed lintels, those at 2nd floor with gauged
brick heads (those above concealed at time of survey). Rear
(to Richmond Street) has loading entrance at right-hand end
with convex sandstone jambs which have raised rock-faced
bands, and a thin iron lintel under a relieving arch; and
segmental-headed windows. The loading bay side has a well
between the front and rear ranges, and glazed roof protecting
the passage. INTERIOR: iron columns and wooden beams; curved
wooden staircase. Forms group with No.8 and No.10 Minshull
Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8444497971

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503109

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