34, Princess Street

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