Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE PICCADILLY
698-1/29/291 (North East side)
20/06/88 Nos.77 TO 83 (Odd)

GV II

Restaurant, shops and warehousing. Dated 1877 in gable; by
Clegg and Knowles. Sandstone ashlar and stucco (probably on
iron frame), slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site.
Eclectic style with Aesthetic Movement features. Four storeys
and attic, 4 unequal bays (3, 4, 2 and 2 windows), plus canted
corner to right; with plain pilasters, raked sills to all
floors, coved pargetted eaves richly decorated with leaves and
fruit, parapet interrupted by wide half-hipped attic to 2nd
bay and octagonal wooden corner turret with steeply-pitched
roof. Ground floor has shops with original stone surrounds
(altered windows), segmental-headed doorway to 2nd bay; upper
floors have running arcaded windows, all with shafts which
have foliated caps, those at 1st floor stilted square-headed,
those at 2nd floor stilted segmental-headed, and those at 3rd
floor 2-centred arched. Large dormer with transomed 16-light
window and large lettering "1877" under projected verges with
spindle-work in the apex; right-hand parapet terminated at a
seated rustic figure; octagonal corner turret like a garden
summer-house. Slab chimneys. Tiled entrance hall.

Listing NGR: SJ8457998225

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561204

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)