Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW FAULKNER STREET
698-1/32/131 (North West side)
Nos.52 AND 54

GV II

Textiles warehouse, now restaurant, offices, etc. Said to be
1876, by Clegg and Knowles; altered. Sandstone ashlar at
ground floor (painted white), otherwise red brick in Flemish
bond with sandstone dressings (roof concealed by parapet).
Deep rectangular plan, extending back to St James Street, with
loading at rear. Basement and 4 storeys, 3+3 windows, with
punched ashlar plinth, sill- and head-bands to upper
floors,and parapet with unusual brick-corbelled blind arcade.
The ground floor, treated as a 3+3-bay arcade of
segmental-headed arches with moulded imposts, has tall doorway
in the outer bays and altered windows in the others; the upper
floors have tripled sashed windows with stone sills and heads,
brick corbelling to the jambs. Rear: unusual open-topped
full-height loading slots with the parapet carried across.
Interior not inspected. Part of a significant group of
buildings. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8413697961

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571868

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings