Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW SACKVILLE STREET
698-1/32/368 (West side)
No.46

GV II

Shipping warehouse, now upholstery business. c.1860-70. Red
brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, slate roof.
Rectangular plan on corner site, at right-angles to street.
Eclectic style with Romanesque features. Four storeys over
basement, a 1:3:1-window facade plus chamfered corner to the
right; with plinth, a Lombard frieze dividing the floors 2 and
2, brick pilasters to both levels, sill-bands to all floors,
and wooden eaves cornice on moulded stone brackets. The corner
has a segmental-headed doorway with stilted moulded surround
and panelled divided doors, at 1st floor a stone canted oriel
in Romanesque style, with a round-headed window which has
pilaster jambs with carved caps, moulded head with keystone,
Lombard frieze and steeply-pitched hipped slate roof, and at
2nd floor a pair of small round-headed windows. The main
facade has segmental-headed windows to ground floor,
round-headed to 1st floor, square-headed to 2nd floor and
round-headed to 3rd floor, those in the centre bay mostly
arcaded. Right-hand return has Lombard frieze and pilasters
like those at front, 2 windows to each bay (all either round-
or segmental-headed), and loading bay doorway to 5th bay. Left
side and rear concealed. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8439397767

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539909

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