Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW NICHOLAS STREET
698-1/32/257 (South West side)
No.16

GV II

Warehouse, now shops, offices etc. c.1870, by Alfred
Waterhouse; altered. Sandstone ashlar and red brick with
sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan [with
integral loading bay at rear]. Free Elizabethan style. Five
storeys and attic, over basement, a symmetrical 2:6:2 window
range, the ends under steeply-pitched gables and breaking
forwards slightly; the basement and ground floor of ashlar,
the upper floors with quoined corners and surrounds,
sill-bands to all floors, bracketed cornice, gable copings
with kneelers and a parapet between them. The ground floor has
a round-headed central doorway moulded in 3 orders, with a
pilastered and pitched surround, and coupled round-headed
windows with linked hoodmoulds; the 1st and 2nd floors have
segmental-headed windows, the upper shouldered, the 3rd and
4th floors have square-headed windows (the upper also
shouldered), the gables have coupled segmental-headed windows,
and all these windows are sashed without glazing bars. The
centre has 3 flat-roofed 3-light dormers above the parapet.
The 5-bay side walls are similar.

Listing NGR: SJ8415497983

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561400

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