42 And 44, Sackville Street

Packing warehouses, likely built around 1860 to 1880, are located on Sackville Street, parallel to the Rochdale Canal. The buildings are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone dressings and a hipped slate roof. The rectangular plan occupies an end-of-block site. The architectural style is simple late-Georgian.

The warehouses are four storeys high, with a basement, and have a symmetrical facade of ten bays. Features include a channelled plinth, a pilastered ground floor with a stone frieze and cornice, and upper floors treated as a giant arcade of round-headed arches with brick pilasters and linked stone imposts. A prominent wooden cornice is supported by coupled brackets, and the building is topped by a parapet with short, square chimneys arranged irregularly.

The central section has a pair of round-headed doorways with recessed, divided panelled doors, set within an elaborate stone surround including polished pink granite shafts with composite stone caps, mask keystones, a bracketed and dentilled cornice, and small lion-mask antefixae. Segmental-headed sash windows are present on the ground, first, and second floors; those on the ground floor have stilted stone heads and linked imposts, the first floor windows have moulded stone heads on brackets with anthemion crests, and the second floor windows have stone shoulders and keystones. The third-floor windows are round-headed and currently fitted with casements. The return sides, eight bays each, are similar but simpler in detail. The interior has not been inspected.