Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE TIB LANE 698-1/27/420 (South side) No.12

GV II

Commercial building, perhaps warehouse. c.1870, slightly altered. Sandstone ashlar (roof not visible). Narrow rectangular single-fronted plan at right-angles to street. Lombard Gothic style. Four storeys and basement, a narrow 3-window facade with much elaborate ornament, including vermiculated piers to a tall basement storey, channelled rustication to raised ground floor, prominent moulded sill-bands to all upper floors, Lombard frieze and very emphatic moulded cornice on brackets. The ground floor has a square-headed doorway with divided panelled doors, enriched lintel and tall overlight of 2 small round-headed lights and a roundel all set in a pilastered architrave with elaborately carved ornament and a pitched semi-circular arched canopy on very short columns with carved capitals, with moulded coping and acroterion; and 2 segmental-headed recessed sashed windows to the left, with stepped voussoirs and keystones. The upper floors have arcaded windows with engaged colonnettes which have water-leaf capitals, those at 1st floor with matching imposts to left and right and round-headed arches with carved ornament including figured keystones, those at 2nd floor with stilted heads and foliated ornament above including a mask in a roundel, a drip-band to the whole arched over this, those at 3rd floor similar but simpler. Forms group with No.10.

Listing NGR: SJ8387198211

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: North East and East (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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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)