10-20, THOMAS STREET

Nos. 10 to 20 on Thomas Street in Manchester is likely a wholesale garment warehouse built around 1870 to 1880, with alterations made to the ground floor. The building features an iron frame, clad in sandstone ashlar with polished granite dressings, and has a rectangular plan in the Venetian Gothic style. It stands four storeys high with an attic, displaying a symmetrical arrangement of windows in a 4:1:4 pattern, plus a gabled extension with four windows on the left side.

The design includes sill-bands on all floors, super-imposed panelled pilasters at the center, a prominent bracketed eaves cornice topped with ornamental wrought-iron cresting, round-headed dormers, and a spirelet at the right-hand corner. The ground floor has been altered, featuring single-light windows in the center and arcaded four-light windows on either side. The first-floor windows are round-headed, while the second-floor windows are stilted-segmental, both with polished granite shafts and linked hoodmoulds. The third-floor windows are shouldered, all sashed without glazing bars. There are five round-headed dormer windows with moulded heads raised at the apex. The right-hand return is styled similarly, while the extension at the left end has differing details. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value with the Wholesale Fish Market building opposite and the returned side of Nos. 75 and 77 High Street to the left.