51 and 53, Richmond Street is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Warehouse. 1 related planning application.
51 and 53, Richmond Street
- WRENN ID
- muffled-foundation-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 51 and 53, Richmond Street, M1 3WB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 843 978
- Coordinates
- 53.47677, -2.23774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
51 and 53 Richmond Street is a small textiles warehouse or workshop, now used as a warehouse, likely built around 1860 and slightly altered. The building is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, with the sides rendered, and features a slate roof. It has a square plan, a basement, and three storeys, presenting a six-window facade. Each floor has sill-bands, with the first floor featuring a simple brick corbel-table. The windows are segmental-headed, except for those on the second floor.
On the ground floor, there is a simple doorway to the right with a fixed four-pane window above the lintel, and next to it is a square-headed loading doorway with a loading stage and wall-crane to the left. There are two basement windows and a basement doorway at the left end, with three windows above these. The upper floors have six windows and three round tie-plates between the floors. A chimney is located at the left gable.
Inside, the construction is very simple, with one cast-iron column in the center of each floor, except for the top floor which has a collar-truss. There is an original work-counter under the top-floor windows. This building is an unusual example of a very small purpose-built warehouse that has seen little alteration and continues to serve its original function.
Local climate
51 and 53, Richmond 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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