Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET
698-1/32/313 (North West side)
28/02/89 Nos.116 AND 118

GV II

Warehouses (probably textiles or clothing), now shops,
offices, etc. c.1860-80; altered. Red brick with sandstone
dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan. Italian Renaissance
style. Three storeys with basement and attic, 6 bays,
symmetrical; with plinth, cornice to ground floor, sill-band
to 2nd floor, prominent modillioned cornice, 2 small
open-pedimented dormers and central chimney stack. Arcaded
ground floor with round-headed arches, banded brick piers and
moulded stone imposts: tall doorways to the outer bays with
keystones and segmental pediments on brackets, and windows
with keystones and original glazing in 2 round-headed lights
(some covered or altered); segmental-headed windows at 1st
floor, each in a raised brick architrave with stone cornice;
round-headed windows at 2nd floor, recessed between pairs of
short brick pilasters; small round-headed dormer windows. Rear
and interior not inspected. Forms group with Nos 106 and
108-114 to right (q.v.) and Nos 120 to 126 to left (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8402897786

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539409

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)