51 And 53, Richmond Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW RICHMOND STREET 698-1/32/350 (South side) Nos.51 AND 53

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Small textiles warehouse or workshop, now warehouse. Probably c.1860, slightly altered. Brown brick in Flemish bond (sides rendered), slate roof. Square plan. Basement and 3 storeys, a 6-window facade, with sill-bands to all floors (that at 1st floor with a simple brick corbel-table), and segmental-headed windows except at 2nd floor; ground floor has simple doorway to right with fixed 4-pane window over the lintel, a square-headed loading doorway next to this with a loading stage and wall-crane to the left, 2 basement windows and a basement doorway at the left end and 3 windows over these; upper floors have 6 windows and 3 round tie-plates between the floors. Chimney at left gable. Interior: very simple construction, with one cast-iron column in the centre of each floor except the top which has a collar-truss; original work-counter under top-floor windows. Unusual example of very small purpose-built warehouse, little altered and still serving the same function.

Listing NGR: SJ8431897807