Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/340 (North East side)
03/10/74 No.101

GV II

Shipping warehouse, converted to flats and offices. 1869, by
Clegg and Knowles; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with
sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Parallelogram plan on
island site, with rear loading bay. Italian palazzo style.
Five storeys over basement, 9 bays; plinth with banded
vermiculation, rusticated quoins to the corners, cornice over
ground floor, sill-bands to all upper floors, prominent
cornice on paired brackets; round-headed doorway to 1st bay,
with enriched pilastered surround including carved voluted
keystone; segmental-headed windows to all floors, those at 1st
floor with stone architraves which have cornices and pediments
alternately, and all the others with keystones and slightly
recessed brick reveals. Return sides similar. Interior
remodelled. Forms group with No.103 to right (q.v.), and with
No.101 Portland Street to left (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8420897860

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560906

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