Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE BOOTH STREET 698-1/27/19 (North side) 03/10/74 No.1

GV II

Includes: No.31 PALL MALL. Probably warehouse, now offices. Probably 1850s. Sandstone ashlar and light red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Irregular 5-sided plan on island site. Italian palazzo style. Basement and 5 storeys (plus added attics), a 7-window facade with curved corner to the right, the basement and ground floor treated as a rustic and the upper floors with quoined corners, a moulded frieze and prominent modillioned cornice. The basement and ground floor, which are rusticated (and the basement vermiculated), have in the 3rd bay a recessed round-headed doorway with cavetto surround, the basement has altered windows and the ground floor has 4-pane sashes with keystones on the frieze, and a raised band above with small dentillation; the upper floors have 4-pane sashes with moulded architraves, those at 1st and 2nd floors shouldered, and the 4th floor windows square. The roof has several tall corniced chimneys, and small inserted attics to the left. The side walls are in matching style. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8394698217

External Links

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