Former Wholesale Fish Market

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 HIGH STREET 698-1/17/163 (North side) 08/10/73 former Wholesale Fish Market

GV II

Includes: No.79 HIGH STREET. Includes: Nos.9 TO 19 THOMAS STREET. Wholesale fish market with front range of shops and offices; the market building now reduced to its outer walls. Dated 1873 on High Street facade; partly demolished. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, slate roof (front range only). Large rectangular plan with front range at west end, site of market to rear of this. Romanesque style. The High Street (south) facade of the former market consists of 4 wide gables, each gable a symmetrical 3-bay composition, with rusticated stone plinth, stone sill-bands and imposts, and stepped gable with Lombard frieze and pitched stone copings with apex finial: a large round-headed archway flanked by round-headed windows, all with slender stone shafts which have foliated caps and stone surrounds to the heads, the central arches with wrought-iron gates and segmental lintels with inscriptions, and carved tympana depicting different episodes of a fishing voyage. One lintel inscribed "OPENED:14:FEB:1873:BOOTH:MAYOR" and the others "WHOLESALE:FISH:MARKETS". North side similar. The front block (9 to 19 Thomas Street), a 3-storey 9-bay range, symmetrical, the centre and end bays breaking forwards slightly and the ends with attics, has a central pedimented doorway and C20 shop fronts at ground floor, arcades of large round-headed arched windows at 1st floor, 2- and 3-light sashed windows at 2nd floor with shafts which have carved capitals, a moulded brick frieze and stone cornice, a pedimented upstand in the centre, tall corniced chimneys between the bays, and gabled dormers over the outer bays; rounded corners with doorways at ground floor, curved 3-light windows in enriched stone surrounds on both upper floors, balustraded parapets, and mansard roofs with wrought-iron cresting. One-bay returned ends in similar style.

Listing NGR: SJ8433798694