Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 SWAN STREET 698-1/17/856 (South West side) 15/03/89 No.29

II

Shop with former offices (now storage) above. c1865; architect not known. Red brick banding and sandstone dressings, slate roof hipped over the main range. Ruskian Gothic style. Three storeys, 1:3 windows, vigorously asymmetrical, the 1st bay gabled and slightly set back: with a sawtooth still-band to the 1st floor, and an oversailing parapet to the main range with carved foliated sandstone bands. The ground floor has a shop front with panelled pilasters at either end, a panelled door to the left with a square overlight, and plate-glass shop windows with slender glazing posts. At 1st and 2nd floors the main range has arcaded windows with polychrome heads, those at 1st floor with shouldered openings, carved crocketed caps and 2-centered arched relieving arches, and those at 2nd floor with segmental-pointed heads. The set-back bay to the left has a 1st-floor oriel, and above this a segmental-pointed window in a steeply-pitched gablet which breaks through a tall parapet and has a monagram "M&K" in the apex. Steeply-pitched roofs, with tall side chimney to the left and a cut-down chimney at the junction of the ranges.

Listing NGR: SJ8454598749

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