Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE PRINCESS STREET 698-1/27/325 (North East side) No.31

GV II

Probably offices and showrooms of furnishing manufacturer, now shops and offices. Probably c.1880-90; altered. Sandstone ashlar (roof concealed). Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Venetian Gothic style. Four storeys, 4:2:4 windows, symmetrical; plinth, string course over 1st floor, sill-bands to 2nd and 3rd floors, bracketed cornice, and arcaded parapet with central pierced gablet flanked by pinnacles. The ground floor has a moulded segmental-arched doorway with double doors and stained glass overlight lettered "31", flanked by large rectangular shop fronts with altered glazing and doorways; the upper floors have arcaded sashed windows, those at 1st floor with raked sills and shaped heads, and bands of squared tracery over (and those in the centre with a cornice on carved brackets); those at 2nd floor with arched heads from which rise mullions to delicately-patterned panels, over which in turn are chunky corbel-tables; and those at 3rd floor with recessed trefoil lights in 2-centred arches. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8391398142

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