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Latitude: 53.4775 / 53°28'38"N
Longitude: -2.2397 / 2°14'22"W
OS Eastings: 384188
OS Northings: 397889
OS Grid: SJ841978
Mapcode National: GBR DKJ.QD
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.KVPG
Plus Code: 9C5VFQG6+X4
Entry Name: Former Pickles Building
Listing Date: 3 October 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1246955
English Heritage Legacy ID: 456053
Also known as: 101 Portland Street
Pickles building, Portland Street
ID on this website: 101246955
Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: City Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester St Ann
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Building Industrial archaeology site Warehouse
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET
698-1/32/306 (South East side)
03/10/74 No.101
Former Pickles Building
GV II
Shipping warehouse, now offices. 1870, by Clegg and Knowles.
Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on corner site,
with integral loading bay to rear. Eclectic style with some
Gothic features. Five storeys with basement and added attic, 3
bays (3, 4 and 3-light windows) plus curved corners; with
chamfered plinth, shallow Lombard frieze over ground floor,
moulded sill-bands to 3rd and 4th floors, carved impost bands
to all floors except the 1st, bracketed cornice, all carried
round (C20 mansard roof). Stilted segmental-headed doorway at
each corner, with pilastered surround, set-in shafts with
foliated caps, mask key-block, carved spandrels, cornice on
short shafts with carved heads, and tall divided doors with
shaped panels. Basement has shouldered windows with iron
grilles; upper floors have recessed sashed windows in reveals
which have shafts with foliated caps, those at ground floor
with stilted arched heads and hoodmoulds, those at 1st floor
square-headed, those at 2nd and 3rd floors round-headed with
2-centred arched hoodmoulds, and those at 4th floor with
shouldered heads; quatrefoil panels between 1st and 2nd floor
windows. Two-light windows to the corners, differing slightly.
Right-hand return (to Princess Street), 6 bays with 2-light
windows in matching style, and segmental-headed loading bay
entrance to right.
Listing NGR: SJ8418897889
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