Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/326 (South West side)
No.34

GV II

Shipping and packing warehouses, now shops and offices.
c.1870-80, altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of red
brick, sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan on
end-of-block site, with chamfered corners. Eclectic style with
Gothic features. Five storeys over basement, 5 bays plus the
corners, symmetrical; with punch-dressed plinth, ashlar ground
floor with cornice, bands between floors, 2nd and 4th bays
framed by semi-octagonal brick pilasters which terminate in
stone pinnacles to steeply-pitched gables, tall clustered
chimneys rising from inner corners of gables, and
steeply-pitched roof. Chamfered piers to ground floor,
2-centred arched doorway with deeply moulded enrichment and
carved crocketed gablet; sloped basement windows now painted
white, square windows to ground floor, sashed windows without
glazing bars to all upper floors, all with stone surrounds,
those in the 3 centre bays coupled, and those at 3rd floor
2-centred arched; blank arches in the gables, with multifoil
enrichment. Left return side (to Faulkner Street) similar,
right-hand return simpler. Forms part of uniterrupted linear
group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8410397922

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539702

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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