Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE DALE STREET 698-1/29/83 (East side) No.35

GV II

Cotton manufacturer's warehouse, now wholesalers' premises. c.1900, probably for Richard Howarth & Co, cotton spinners and manufacturers. Steel columns and girders (cased), with cladding of polished grey granite, red brick and pink terracotta; roof concealed. Rectangular plan with chamfered corners to the front and through loading bay at rear. Simplified eclectic style with Elizabethan accent. Basement and 6 storeys (the top 3 shallower), 4 bays between chamfered corners, with a granite plinth, piers faced with banded terracotta at ground floor and brick above, string-courses between the floors including a modillioned cornice over the 3rd floor, and a parapet with upstands. The chamfered corners, distinguished by banded semi-octagonal shafts beginning at 1st floor and finishing in the parapet as domed pinnacles, each have a doorway at ground floor, that to the left with a corniced surround of polished granite and a recessed wooden and glazed screen with panelled and glazed double doors which have decorated brass furnishings and bevelled plate-glass; a segmental oriel to the 2nd and 3rd floors with moulded corbel, 3-light sashed windows, and balustraded parapet; 2-light sashed windows on the other floors; and a shaped and pedimented gablet pierced by a festooned oculus. The 4-bay front has 3-light windows on all floors, those at 1st floor slightly canted, those at 2nd floor with bracketed cornices, and all above ground floor framed by thin pilasters which form vertical strips, continued on the upstands of the parapets. The 5-bay sides are in matching style, and the rear end of each has a loading entrance with cast-iron surround. The rear has white glazed brick cladding and a well between short wings. Interior not inspected. HISTORY: occupied in 1905 by Richard Howarth & Co, cotton spinners and manufacturers.

Listing NGR: SJ8464498311

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