Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW FAULKNER STREET 698-1/32/132 (South East side) No.55

GV II

Includes: No.18 NICHOLAS STREET. Warehouse, now offices. 1870, by Clegg and Knowles; altered. Brown brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site. Italianate style. Basement and 4 storeys, 5 bays to Nicholas Street and 3 bays to Faulkner Street; with altered basement, banded ground floor with deep sill-band and Lombard frieze, giant pilasters to the upper floors with enriched imposts, bracketed cornice. The ground floor has wide segmental-arched openings with brick heads imitating splayed voussoirs, containing coupled sashed windows with incised decoration in the tympani except the 3rd bay to Faulkner Street which is a tall doorway with moulded surround, panelled double doors and internal steps; the upper floors have 2 sashed windows in each bay, the topmost round-headed and the others segmental-headed, with ornamented sills and heads. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8417997963

External Links

• 55 Faulkner Street, Manchester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26512667

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House