Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/330 (South West side)
No.52
Rhodesia House

GV II

Includes: No.102 Rhodesia House BLOOM STREET.
Various packing warehouses. c.1880-90. Red brick with
sandstone dressings, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on island
site. Eclectic style. Four storeys with basements and attics,
3 bays plus chamfered corners, symmetrical; punch-dressed
stone plinth, string-course and cornice over ground floor,
pairs of string-courses between floors, moulded main cornice
with brick parapet, attic above this with 2 large pedimented
gables, steeply-pitched hipped roof with corner finials. The
ground floor has a round-headed doorway with brick pilasters,
carved capitals, moulded stone head with carved enrichments
including keystone and swags and flanked by pairs of moulded
brackets to the cornice above; coupled round-headed windows
each side, with hoodmoulds and keystones (boarded at time of
survey); upper floors have coupled sashed windows to the
centre and tiered segmental bay windows of stone in the outer
bays, with curved 3-light sashes and panels between floors
decorated with swags. The attic dormers have pilasters,
3-light windows, and triangular pediments with stone surrounds
flanked by short square chimneys. The corners have
round-headed windows at ground floor, square-headed above.
Nine-bay return wall, in similar style, including one bay with
segmental bay windows and pedimented gable, and coupled
loading bay doorways. Interior not inspected. Forms part of
uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side
of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8420597772

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560916

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)