Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/324 (South West side)
Nos.26 TO 30 (Even)

GV II

Offices and warehouses, now variously occupied. c.1870-80,
altered. Sandstone ashlar ground floor, blood-red brick with
sandstone dressings above, steeply-pitched hipped slate roof.
Rectangular plan on end-of-block site (now island), with
chamfered corners, loading bay at rear. Eclectic style. Four
storeys over basement, a 14-window facade, symmetrical, the
windows grouped 1:2:3:3:2:1, plus 3-light corner oriels; with
high chamfered plinth and plain frieze to ground floor, brick
pilasters to the 2-window bays terminating in tall pilastered
chimneys (treated as pinnacles), heavy bracketed cornice over
2nd floor, small cornice and brick parapet over 3rd floor. The
2-window bays have coupled round-headed doorways (the 4th
altered as window) with much enrichment, including colonnettes
with carved caps supporting large elaborate consoles to
stilted open pediments which contain carved keystones and
swags; the corners have square-headed doorways each with 2
semicircular overlights flanking the corbel of a cylindrical
2-storey oriel above. The windows are sashed without glazing
bars, those of 2 and 3 lights with stone mullions (except at
3rd floor) and those of the 2-window bays with stone panels
between the floors. Returned sides similar. Forms part of
uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side
of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8408997938

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539314

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