Description

SJ 8497 NW, 698-1/32/329

MANCHESTER, PRINCESS STREET (South West side),
Nos. 48 AND 50 Transact House

GV

II

Includes: No. 2 Transact House WATERLOO STREET.
Shipping warehouse and packing warehouse, now offices.
c.1880-90. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof.
Trapeziform plan on island site. Eclectic style. Four storeys
with basement and attic, a 9-window facade including curved
corners; with stone plinth, brick pilasters, moulded cornice
to ground floor, moulded main cornice with brick parapet, and
pedimented attic dormers over centres and corners. Chamfered
corners to ground floor with round-headed doorway and windows
in pilastered surround with keystone; above this, curved
oriels to full height, with transomed 10-light windows to all
floors; at left centre and right centre of ground floor, a
window of two round-headed lights with pilastered surround,
above this a canted 2-storey oriel with transomed 8-light
windows, and a cross-window to the third floor; mullioned and
transomed windows of six lights and cross-windows in the other
bays; cross-windows in dormers, single-light windows in corner
dormers. Five-bay return side in simpler style, with brick
pilasters, central attic gable. Interior not inspected. Forms
part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on
this side of Princess Street. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8419297809

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539705

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)