Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW DALE STREET
698-1/28/77 (North East side)
No.3

GV II

Formerly known as: No.23 SPEAR STREET.
Millinery warehouse, now clothing shops. 1900-1910. Cast-iron
columns and concrete floors, clad in red brick and ochre
terracotta, with plinths of polished pink granite; roof
concealed. Rectangular plan on corner site at junction with
Spear Street. Simplified baroque style. Composed of a 5-storey
4-window entrance block with a splayed corner, and a 3-storey
6-window rear range, with a basement throughout and an attic
to the rear range. The facades are rectilinear grids of large
windows separated by vertical piers and horizontal bands
mostly of terracotta, the piers treated as blocked columns at
ground floor and banded pilasters above, with various moulded
terracotta enrichments in Art Nouveau style. The splayed
corner, treated as a 3-sided full-height porch, has a
segmental-headed doorway and overlight under a segmental hood
on decorated consoles, windows which are square headed at 1st
and 2nd floors and segmental-headed at 3rd and 4th floors,
with a dentilled moulded cornice segmentally arched over the
topmost, cartouches with pendants on the piers between them,
an upstand over each pier; and a domed roof. Balancing the
composition, the left end bay has a segmental open pediment in
similar style. Otherwise, the ground floor has
segmental-arched windows with sloped basement windows
immediately beneath; at 1st floor the 3 principal bays have
Venetian-style casement glazing; the 2 centre bays have
segmental-headed windows at 2nd floor and flat-roofed 3-light
windows at 4th floor with dentilled sill-bands. The rear range
(to Spear Street) has banded pilasters to the narrow end bay
(balancing the returned side of the entrance block), and
basement and ground floor matching the front; otherwise,
intermediate piers mainly of brick, segmental-headed windows
at 2nd floor, a dentilled cornice of terracotta, and low
3-light attic windows with cornices arched over the centre
lights. Interior not inspected. Forms group with 18 Oldham
Street to left (q.v.) and Sevendale House to right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8449398439

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504635

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