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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539701

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)