Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW SACKVILLE STREET
698-1/32/366 (North East side)
18/05/90 No.27

II

Textiles warehouse. c.1870-80. Red brick with sandstone
dressings, slate roof. Shallow rectangular plan on
end-of-block site, parallel to street, with loading bay in
right-hand return wall. Four storeys over basement, 9 windows;
with punch-dressed plinth, channelled ground floor, sill-bands
to all floors (that to 1st floor on a brick corbel table), and
elaborate brick-bracketed frieze to prominent moulded stone
cornice. Doorway at left end, with panelled double doors and
elaborate stone overlight of 2 round-headed lights with small
shaft and various enrichments, in a rectangular surround of
carved square panels; windows sashed without glazing bars,
alternate pairs coupled, those at ground floor with stone
lintels under bands of small brick brackets, those at 1st
floor with segmental arched heads enriched with stone imposts,
keystones and hoodmoulds, and those on both upper floors with
plain stone lintels. Segmental-arched basement openings with
iron railings. Four-window return walls, the left in matching
style with coupled windows in the centre, and the right with a
segmental-headed loading bay doorway next to the rear corner,
a very narrow tall doorway to the left of this, and
segmental-headed windows to the upper floors. Small and
little-altered example of textile warehouse, still functioning
as such.

Listing NGR: SJ8434097862

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539908

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  For the Record