101, Princess Street is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Shipping warehouse. 7 related planning applications.

101, Princess Street

WRENN ID
stranded-railing-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Shipping warehouse
Address
101, Princess Street, M1 6DD
OS grid reference
SJ 842 978
Coordinates
53.47725, -2.23941
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 101 Princess Street is a shipping warehouse that was converted into flats and offices. It was built in 1869 by Clegg and Knowles and has been altered since its construction. The building is made of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, and features a parallelogram plan on an island site, including a rear loading bay. Designed in the Italian palazzo style, it stands five storeys tall over a basement and consists of nine bays.

The exterior includes a plinth with banded vermiculation and rusticated quoins at the corners. There is a cornice above the ground floor and sill-bands on all upper floors, with a prominent cornice supported by paired brackets. The first bay has a round-headed doorway with an enriched pilastered surround that includes a carved voluted keystone. The windows are segmental-headed across all floors, with the first-floor windows featuring stone architraves that have alternating cornices and pediments, while the other windows have keystones and slightly recessed brick reveals. The return sides of the building are similar in design. The interior has been remodelled. This building forms a group with No. 103 to the right and No. 101 Portland Street to the left.

Local climate

101, Princess Street 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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