Basil House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Warehouse. 5 related planning applications.
Basil House
- WRENN ID
- north-loft-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Basil House, 105 and 107, Portland Street, M1 6DF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 841 978
- Coordinates
- 53.47714, -2.24043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Basil House is a manufacturers' home trade warehouse, now serving as a club and offices, built around 1870-1880. It is likely iron-framed and features red brick cladding, sandstone dressings, and a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan with loading access at the rear and is designed in an eclectic style. It stands five storeys tall over a basement and consists of six bays.
The ground floor showcases stone banding and a bracketed cornice, with simple pilasters and some stone bands on the next three floors. A moulded sill-band marks the slightly set back top floor, which is adorned with a stepped frieze and cornice, as well as two panelled chimneys topped with segmental-pedimented caps.
The ground floor includes a segmental-headed doorway in the fourth bay, featuring a heavily enriched pilastered surround and a frieze with the attached lettering "BASIL HOUSE." The first bay has a former doorway that has been altered into a window with a similar surround, while a single-light window is positioned to the left. Coupled square-headed windows are found over cellar openings in the other bays. The first, second, and third floors have coupled windows with ornamented stone panels between them; the first-floor windows have cornices, while the third-floor windows are segmental-headed with keystones and impost bands. The top floor features smaller coupled windows and a single-light window to the left.
The interior has not been inspected. Basil House forms a group with No. 103 to the left and Nos. 109, 111, and 113 to 119 on the right, together creating a complete block of former warehouses.
Local climate
Basil House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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