Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET 698-1/29/249 (North West side) Nos.13 AND 15 Kingsley House

GV II

Garment warehouses and workshops. Late C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone ashlar plinth and dressings, slate roof with skylghts. Rectangular plan. Basement and 3 storeys plus 2 attic storeys; 5 bays between curved corners, with a high moulded plinth, a frieze and cornice to the ground floor, a prominent bracketed cornice over the 2nd floor, attic treated as a high parapet and mansard roof with skylight attic windows. The ground floor, treated in C18 style, has a doorway in the 2nd bay with an architrave including a swag on the frieze and an open pediment in the cornice; and windows with simpler architraves (those at the corners curved); the upper floors and parapet attic (which are astylar), have coupled windows in the 3 centre bays and single windows in the other bays, all with stone sills and heads and all sashed (mostly without glazing bars, and those at the corners curved). Chimneys on the parapet above the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th piers. Irregular skylight fenestration. The return walls have 2 bays in matching style, that to the left has 2 bays of staggered windows beyond, and that to the right has inter alia a square turret on the roof, with a pyramidal roof. History: occupied c.1905 by mantle and costume manufacturers, with workrooms on the 4th and 5th floors.

Listing NGR: SJ8456298307

External Links

• Wikidata Q26561398

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