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MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/343 (North East side)
03/10/74 No.109

GV II

Packing and shipping warehouse, now offices. 1863, by Clegg
and Knowles. Red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not
visible). Rectangular plan on island site, at right-angles to
street. Italian palazzo style. Four storeys over basement, 8
bays, symmetrical; with rusticated punch-dressed plinth,
narrow chamfered corners with channelled rustication in the
centre and rusticated quoins to the angles, cornice over
ground floor, sill-bands to all upper floors, enriched frieze
and bracketed cornice. Round-headed arcades to ground floor,
3:1:3 bays: central doorway with rusticated surround, set-in
polished shafts with carved capitals, moulded head with volute
keystone and carved spandrels, and prominent cornice on pairs
of heavily decorated brackets and surmounted by ornamental
iron balcony railings; flanking arches on brick piers, with
moulded stone heads, keystones and linking imposts, containing
tall basement openings with decorated cast-iron railings and
shorter windows with altered glazing. 1st and 2nd floors have
segmental-headed sashed windows with set-in shafts, moulded
imposts, and stilted stone heads with keystones, and 3rd floor
has round-headed sashes with similar enrichments. Left side
wall (to Bloom Street), 10 bays in matching style, with
segmental-headed loading bay entrance near far end. Forms
group with Nos 105 and 107 to left (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8426197779