Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/338 (South West side)
No.86
Manchester House

GV II

Shipping and packing warehouse, now restaurant, offices etc.
1914, probably by Birkett; altered. Iron frame with cladding
of brown sandstone and some buff brick (roof concealed).
Irregular plan at right-angles to street, with chamfered
right-hand corner. Free Baroque style. Six storeys with
basement and attic, 4 bays (1:1:2:1 windows) plus the corner;
with a grey stone plinth, channelled rustication to the first
3 floors, giant Ionic pilasters to the 4th and 5th floors
rising from banded pedestals at 3rd floor, those flanking the
centre bay coupled and all with festoons, a moulded frieze
with large central cartouche, prominent mutuled cornice with a
large mutuled segmental pediment arched across the centre of
the attic storey, which has a small cornice and interrupted
parapet. At ground floor the centre has a doorway and side
windows in Venetian window form, with open segmental pediment
and cartouche crest, the outer bays have round-headed windows
with run-out voussoirs and triple keystones, and the corner
has a square-headed doorway with pilaster jambs and carved
tympanum under a segmental hood. The 1st and 2nd floors have
windows with moulded architraves and cornices, those at 2nd
floor on slender consoles with pendent festoons; the windows
at 4th and 5th floors also have moulded architraves, those at
4th floor with small cornices; and the attic has a 4-light
Diocletian window in the pediment, and windows in the other
bays with keyed architraves and cornices. Interior not
inspected. Forms southern end of uninterrupted linear group of
similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8429697579

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560904

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings