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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546335

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)