Tootal, Broadhurst And Lee Building

The Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building is a textile warehouse that has been converted into offices. It was constructed between 1896 and 1898, with the date 1896 prominently displayed over the doorway. Designed by J. Sankey Gibbons, the building is likely steel-framed and is clad in red brick, featuring extensive decorative elements in buff and yellow terracotta. The structure has a large rectangular plan and is designed in a Baroque style, standing five storeys tall with basements and an attic.

The façade consists of seven bays with canted corners. The ground floor is adorned with glazed terracotta and raised banding, while the upper floors display alternating bands of red brick and yellow terracotta. A cornice crowns the ground floor, and banded piers on the first floor serve as pedestals for a giant Corinthian colonnade on the second and third floors. This colonnade is topped with a modillioned cornice and transitions into an arcade of semi-circular windows on the fourth floor. A prominent modillioned cornice runs along the top, with the attic designed as a parapet and raised in the center.

The building features set-in semi-octagonal corner turrets that rise from the second floor, each capped with colonnaded octagonal cupolas, which have notable cornices and apex finials with flagmasts. The central round-headed doorway is massive, framed by a banded surround and a cartouche dated 1896, set within an architrave of coupled banded columns and a broken pediment. The windows are six-light with transoms.

On the right-hand return to Great Bridgewater Street, the building continues in a matching style with five bays, two of which are in the center featuring coupled round-headed loading-bay arches at the ground floor, equipped with wrought-iron gates in an Art Nouveau style, and a pedimented attic. The interior has not been inspected.