Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 THOMAS STREET
698-1/17/417 (South West side)
Nos.10 TO 20 (Even)

GV II

Probably a wholesale garment warehouse. c.1870-80, altered at
ground floor. Iron frame, with cladding of sandstone ashlar
and dressings of polished granite (roof concealed).
Rectangular plan. Venetian Gothic style. Four storeys and
attic, 4:1:4 windows, symmetrical, plus a 4-window gabled
extension to the left; with sill-bands to all floors,
super-imposed panelled pilasters to the centre, prominent
bracketed eaves cornice with ornamental wrought-iron cresting,
round-headed dormers and a spirelet to the right-hand corner.
Ground floor altered. Single-light windows in the centre,
arcaded 4-light windows to each side, those at 1st floor
round-headed and those at 2nd floor stilted-segmental, both
with shafts of polished granite, and linked hoodmoulds, and
those at 3rd floor shouldered: all these windows sashed
without glazing bars. Five round-headed dormer windows with
moulded heads raised at the apex. Right-hand return in similar
style. Extension at left end differing in details. Interior
not inspected. Forms group with Wholesale Fish Market building
opposite (Nos 9 to 19, q.v.) and with returned side of Nos 75
and 77 High Street to the left. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8431498679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560684

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)