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

• Historic England Listing
• 55 Faulkner Street, Manchester at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26512667

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Oxfordshire (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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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)