Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE ST MARY'S PARSONAGE
698-1/27/407 (West side)
No.14
National Buildings

GV II

Office block. 1905-9, by Harry S. Fairhurst, for National
Boiler and Generator Insurance Company. Iron or steel frame,
with cladding of buff and white terracotta and some red brick.
Large quadrilateral plan. Eclectic style. Five storeys with
basement and 2 attic storeys, 9 bays, symmetrical; with
rusticated terracotta and mutuled cornice to the first 2
floors, pilasters to the next 3 floors of the 7-bay main range
(panelled and of brick at 2nd and 3rd floors, terracotta with
coved niches at 4th floor), with a mutuled cornice; and banded
terracotta to the outer bays which are treated as towers and
finished with Baroque cupolas; set-back attic storeys between
the turrets. The ground floor has large round-headed windows
with cavetto surrounds and triple keystones, a similar but
larger waggon entry to the right, and a central doorway with
banded pilastered surround carried up to a semi-circular
pediment enclosing a circular window at 1st floor, with
moulded enrichments. The 1st floor has segmental-headed
3-light windows with enriched keyblocks; the upper floors have
(inter alia) 3-storey canted oriels to the outer bays, 3-light
windows to the 2nd and 3rd floors and a plaque in the centre
lettered "NATIONAL BUILDINGS", 2-light windows to the 4th
floor with Ionic colonnettes, Diocletian windows to the first
attic storey, with triple keystones, and 3-light windows to
the 2nd attic (forming almost continuous glazing). Rear and
interior not inspected. Forms group with Arkwright House,
Parsonage Gardens (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8356698477

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546139

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