Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW SACKVILLE STREET 698-1/32/367 (West side) 03/10/74 Nos.42 AND 44

GV II

Packing warehouses, now variously occupied. Probably c.1860-80. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site parallel to south side of Rochdale Canal. Simple late-Georgian style. Four storeys over basement, 10 bays, symmetrical, with channelled plinth, pilastered ground floor with stone frieze and cornice, upper floors treated as giant arcade of round-headed arches with brick pilasters and linked stone imposts, prominent wooden cornice on coupled brackets, and parapet with short square chimneys (irregularly arranged). The centre has coupled round-headed doorways with recessed divided panelled doors in an elaborate stone surround including polished pink granite shafts with composite stone caps, mask keystones, bracketed and dentilled cornice with small lion-mask antefixae. The ground, 1st and 2nd floors have segmental-headed sashed windows, those at ground floor with stilted stone heads and linking imposts, those at 1st floor with moulded stone heads on brackets and key-blocks with anthemion crests, and those at 2nd floor with stone shoulders and keystones; the 3rd floor has round-headed windows now furnished with casements. Return sides, 8 bays, similar but simpler. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8437197790

External Links

• 42–44 Sackville Street at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26560805

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